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Adult Social Care Record (MODS): Adult Social Care Record (MODS) Implementation Guidance

Administrative Information

Information recorded when a person interacts with health and adult social care actors and concerning the management of a person's care and those responsible for caring for them.

%%{ init: { 'theme': 'base' } }%% graph TD %% Main People and Entities Sub[Subject of Care] CA[Care Actor] SP[Service Provider] %% Central Administrative Items Comm[Communication] Doc[Document] Adm[Admission details] Dis[Discharge Details] Occ[Occupancy] Rev[Review] %% Supporting Concepts (Side boxes) subgraph Context Location Address Event end %% Administrative Flow Comm -- sends/receives --> CA Comm -- concerns --> Sub Doc -- records/concerns --> CA Doc -- concerns --> Sub Adm -- provides/concerns --> SP Adm -- concerns --> Sub Dis -- provides/concerns --> SP Dis -- concerns --> Sub Occ -- concerns --> SP CA -- Schedules --> Rev %% Review Fan-out Rev -- concerns --> Assessment Rev -- concerns --> Instruction Rev -- concerns --> Action Rev -- concerns --> Activity Rev -- concerns --> CarePlan

Administrative information includes records of:

Communications Documents Admission details Discharge details and Reviews concerned with the management and provision of care for the Subject of care.

Administrative information also includes records of:

Occupancy concerning Service providers.

Administrative information also includes a number of standards for recording:

Events Locations Addresses these typically would not form distinct records themselves but are building blocks used as part of other records.

Page last updated: 05 March 2026