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.

Profiling

Important: Work in progress

NHS Digital will derive any profiles from the UK Core profiles where these exist (see requirement FHIR-NAT-02 National Services)

In addition, the following requirements have been agreed:

FHIR-PROFILE-01:

Profiles MUST NOT define alternate summary fields for resources.

All FHIR base resources have a number of fields defined as 'summary' fields, which appear in results when the client requested summary versions of the resource to be returned (for example in search results). These summary fields can only be defined in base resources and cannot be changed in any profiles.

Note: This is a rule established by HL7, but is not clear in the HL7 FHIR specification.