Do all diagnoses have to be less than 12 months old?
No. Only specified diagnoses need to have been made or confirmed in the twelve months prior to the appraisal. The User Guide (page 14) specifies four Mental and Behavioural diagnoses that must be less than twelve months old including provisional diagnoses or reconfirmations of a diagnosis: – Code 540 Delirium – Code 550A Depression, mood and affective disorders – Code 550B Psychoses e.g. schizophrenia, paranoid states – Code 560 Neurotic, stress related, anxiety, somatoform disorders e.g. post traumatic stress disorder, phobic and anxiety disorders, nervous tension/stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Top of page These four disorders are the only conditions that require a diagnosis (provisional or reconfirmation of the diagnosis) to have been completed in the past twelve months.
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