Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Implementation Guide

Release Notes

2.18.8

  • January 2026
  • Significant update to align with the implementation of the NHS England EPS FHIR API
  • Redundent extensions removed from Profiles

2.8.11

  • May 2023

2.6.0

  • Based on UKCore fhir.r4.ukcore.stu1 version 0.5.1
  • Based on NHS Digital IG 2.6.0. See Release Notes

2.3.0

  • Based on UK Core Implementation Guide 0.1.0 - STU1 (ukcore.release1.stu1.01.01)
  • Based on NHS Digital IG 2.3.0
  • NHSDigital-Task reprofiled to ensure consistency.
    • reasonCode moved to statusReason
    • reasonCode is now SNOMED CT
  • NHSDigital-Claim altered to make less use of subDetail, subDetail is now optional (to support non dispensed medications)
  • NHSDigital-MedicationRequest and NHSDigital-MedicationDispense now have extra validation constraints.
  • Examples corrected to use valid dm+d SNOMED CT

2.1.40-alpha (05 Aug 2021)

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