We are planning to schedule calls for UK Core Clinical & Technical Assurance Sprint 8 throughout the week of Monday 27th October to Friday 31st October 2025.
Please click the link below and fill in the form to select which days and times you are available.
https://forms.office.com/e/U0HvzhgBae
There will be a minimum of two calls. A third call may be scheduled, if required.
The scope of the sprint will only include updates to existing assets and guidance. New assets and new guidance are not in scope for this sprint.
The proposed topics for discussion within the calls are:
Retire Observation-Group-Lab
Loosen profiling to allow valueCodeableConcepts for UKCore-Observation-TobaccoConsumption
Update process to asset lifecycle and meaning of asset statuses
Discuss the terminology content for assets relating to blood pressure
Update IG guidance relating to the usage of Extension-UKCore-CodingSCTDescDisplay
Update to IG dropdown lists and where the content exists
Update binding for hospitalization.dischargeDisposition
Update bindings relating to Appointment.serviceType
Discuss terminology used in UKCore-AllergyManifestation
More information can be found within the UK Core Clinical and Technical Assurance Documentation Pack
Other news from HL7 UK
We are planning to schedule calls for UK Core Clinical & Technical Assurance Sprint 8 throughout the week of Monday 27th October to Friday 31st October 2025.
Bug Fix to a number of Extensions missing their binding
We are pleased to announce that HL7 UK have officially published the HL7 FHIR UK Core 2.0.0 STU2 sequence.
As of 19/09/2023, CareConnect has been deprecated and all development on the CareConnect FHIR STU3 assets has ceased.
The 3 week review period for Clinical and Technical Assurance Sprint 7, covering clinical observations and vital signs has opened.
HL7 UK have announced the opening of the next UK Core Ballot, to get involved visit https://confluence.hl7.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=175611042
You are invited to register to participate in Sprint 7 of the Clinical and Technical Assurance process for a set of components for inclusion in a candidate FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide. The scope of Sprint 7 is Clinical Observations.
Following a proposal from the UK Core Development Team, prompted by consultation and feedback from the FHIR Community, the UK FHIR Board has agreed to the creation of an Implementation Group for the UK Core. Register your interest now!
The 1.6.0 version of UK Core is available for the Sprint 6 of Clinical and Technical Assurance three-week review period. The review runs from 27th February 2023 until 20th March 2023.
You are invited to register to participate in Sprint 6 of the Clinical and Technical Assurance process of a set of components for inclusion in the candidate 'HL7 FHIR UK Core Implementation Guide R4' in development.