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.
There are no (further) constraints on this element
Element Id
Extension
Short description
Role of an actor
Definition
The preferred use of this is to record Clinical Specialty (or Hospital Service).
It may also be used to record the SDS Role (for Practitioner and PractitionerRole references) or SNOMED Service code (for Organization references).