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.

category
consequence

code	profile	min	max
DocumentReference	https://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-DocumentReference	1	*
Patient	https://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-Patient	0	1
Binary		0	*
Bundle		0	*

Document with patient referenced by NHS Number (no Patient resource) d12dc439-ca5c-4177-bb70-4fece88edab0 message
Document with Patient resource 3d0c9cc7-60ea-44e0-9ee8-765abbb660dd message