NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide (deprecated)

Important Announcement regarding this Implementation Guide
  • As of 04/10/2023, this implementation guide has been deprecated and all development on the legacy NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide assets has ceased.
  • Therefore, vendors looking to start new implementations or looking to update existing implementations should use the new NHS England Implementation Guide. Vendors continuing to implement legacy NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide based solutions do so at their own risk and on the understanding that no maintenance or support will be available.

documents

description

Used to exchange a clinical document. One of FHIR Binary or FHIR Bundle (type=document) is required. If a Binary is supplied a DocumentReference MUST also be supplied.

eventCoding

category

category
consequence

focus

codeprofileminmax
DocumentReferencehttps://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-DocumentReference1*
Patienthttps://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-Patient01
Binary0*
Bundle0*

Examples

  • Document with patient referenced by NHS Number (no Patient resource)
    Command 'link' could not render: File not found for 'subject=d12dc439-ca5c-4177-bb70-4fece88edab0-duplicate-2'
  • Document with Patient resource
    Command 'link' could not render: File not found for 'subject=Bundle-Bundle-message-document'
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