Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Implementation Guide

prescription-order-response

This message definition describes the rules for a Prescription Order Response interactions used in a FHIR Messaging exchange. This is used as a response to the prescription-order-update message. As this relates to a single MedicationRequest, this response will only ever contain a single MedicationRequest.

The FHIR Message Bundle MUST contain one MessageHeader resource conforming to NHSDigital-MessageHeader.

MessageHeader.eventCoding

System Code
Message Events prescription-order-response 
"eventCoding": {
    "system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/CodeSystem/message-event",
    "code": "prescription-order-response",
    "display": "Prescription Order Response"
}

MessageHeader.focus

Profile Min Max
NHSDigital-MedicationRequest 1 1
<MessageDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
<id value="prescription-order-response" />
<url value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/MessageDefinition/prescription-order-response" />
<identifier>
<system value="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122" />
<value value="c81b88dc-760e-4b1e-9cdb-c5f853630664" />
</identifier>
<version value="1.1.0" />
<name value="NHSDigitalPrescriptionOrderResponse" />
<title value="Pharmacy/Treatment Order Response" />
<status value="retired" />
<date value="2025-10-14" />
<description value="response to a prescription-order-update message" />
<eventCoding>
<system value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/CodeSystem/message-event" />
<code value="prescription-order-response" />
<display value="Prescription Order Response" />
</eventCoding>
<category value="notification" />
<focus>
<code value="MedicationRequest" />
<profile value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-MedicationRequest" />
<min value="1" />
<max value="1" />
</focus>
</MessageDefinition>
{
"resourceType": "MessageDefinition",
"id": "prescription-order-response",
"url": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/MessageDefinition/prescription-order-response",
"identifier": [
{
"system": "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122",
"value": "c81b88dc-760e-4b1e-9cdb-c5f853630664"
}
],
"version": "1.1.0",
"name": "NHSDigitalPrescriptionOrderResponse",
"title": "Pharmacy/Treatment Order Response",
"status": "retired",
"date": "2025-10-14",
"description": "response to a prescription-order-update message",
"eventCoding": {
"system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/CodeSystem/message-event",
"code": "prescription-order-response",
"display": "Prescription Order Response"
},
"category": "notification",
"focus": [
{
"code": "MedicationRequest",
"profile": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/StructureDefinition/NHSDigital-MedicationRequest",
"min": 1,
"max": "1"
}
]
}

image-message-prescription-order-response

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