Notice
- Important: This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
- This Implementation Guide is currently in Draft and SHOULD NOT be used for development or active implementation without express direction from the NHS England Genomics Unit.
Extension-UKCore-AdditionalContact
Usage
An extension to support recording of additional contacts, who should be contacted regarding questions arising from the service request. This differs from the requester and responsibleClinician.
Tree View
| ExtensionUKCoreAdditionalContact (Extension) | C | Extension | |
| id | 0..1 | string | |
| extension | C | 0..* | Extension |
| url | 1..1 | uriFixed Value | |
| value[x] | 1..1 | ||
| valueReference | Reference(Organization | Practitioner | PractitionerRole) |
Detailed Descriptions
| Extension | C | |
| Short | Details of an additional contact | |
| Definition | Details of an additional contact, who should be contacted regarding questions arising from the service request. | |
| Cardinality | 0..* | |
| Conditions | The cardinality or value of this element may be affected by these constraints: ele-1 | |
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| Extension.id | ||
| Short | Unique id for inter-element referencing | |
| Definition | Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces. | |
| Cardinality | 0..1 | |
| Type | string | |
| Mappings |
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| Extension.extension | C | |
| Short | Additional content defined by implementations | |
| Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. | |
| Cardinality | 0..* | |
| Type | Extension | |
| Alias | extensions, user content | |
| Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. | |
| Slicing | Unordered, Open, by url(Value) Extensions are always sliced by (at least) url | |
| Conditions | The cardinality or value of this element may be affected by these constraints: ele-1 | |
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| Extension.url | ||
| Short | identifies the meaning of the extension | |
| Definition | Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL. | |
| Cardinality | 1..1 | |
| Type | uri | |
| Comments | The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension. | |
| Fixed Value | https://fhir.hl7.org.uk/StructureDefinition/Extension-UKCore-AdditionalContact | |
| Mappings |
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| Extension.value[x] | ||
| Short | A link to a the resource to be contacted. | |
| Definition | A link to the Organization, Practitioner, or PractitionerRole resource to be contacted. | |
| Cardinality | 1..1 | |
| Type | Reference(Organization | Practitioner | PractitionerRole) | |
| Conditions | The cardinality or value of this element may be affected by these constraints: ele-1 | |
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Table View
| Extension | 0..* | |
| Extension.id | string | 0..1 |
| Extension.extension | Extension | 0..* |
| Extension.url | uri | 1..1 |
| Extension.value[x] | Reference(Organization | Practitioner | PractitionerRole) | 1..1 |
XML View
JSON View
Examples
Additional Contact - An example to illustrate providing an additional contact with a service request.