Continuation is further treatment within 2 months.
This does not apply if an urgent CoT is required within 2 months of a previous CoT. This must be claimed as a separate CoT.
The clinician submitting the FP17 claim must cross box 4 'Urgent treatment' in Part 5 of the FP17 to indicate the provision of urgent care.
The 'Further treatment within 2 months' box in Part 6 of the FP17, must not be crossed in these cases.
Where the patient has returned for care directly related to a recent restoration you've performed such as a dry socket after an extraction or the easing of a newly constructed denture, an urgent CoT claim would not be appropriate.
Such treatments are considered part of the initial CoTs aftercare and must be provided within that claim.