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.

Medication[x].medicationCodeableConcept

The use of this element is preferred over a reference to a Medication resource (element medicationReference). This is to simplfy the technical implementation around drug codes and to be backwardly compatible with HL7v2 and HL7v3 (EPS).

An example of the preferred approach is shown in Identifier and CodeableConcept Reference

The CareConnect approach of using a medicationReference is shown in Resource Reference to a resource

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