NHS Digital FHIR Medicines (Retired - 2.1.14)

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.

MedicationRequest.category

This is optional in UKCore R4 and CareConnect STU3, it is required in NHS Digital Medicines. In NHS Digital Medicines this is a code from https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/DM-medicationrequest-category. Primary care prescriptions should use a community code. Secondary care should match the EpisodeOfCare/Encounter class (or Patient Class Table 0004 in HL7 v2).

ValueSet 'MedicationRequest Category'

Version4.0.1
StatusDraft

MedicationRequest Category.

This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

Expansion

This expansion was generated on 2020-07-29T17:12:47+10:00

This value set contains 5 concepts

CodeSystemDisplay
leavehttps://fhir.nhs.uk/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-categoryLeave
outpatienthttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-categoryOutpatient
dischargehttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-categoryDischarge
communityhttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-categoryCommunity
inpatienthttp://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-categoryInpatient

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