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You are invited to participate in the UK Core Clinical & Technical Assurance Sprint 8 calls on:

  • Call 1 - Tuesday, 28th October: 10:00am – 12:00pm
  • Call 2 -Thursday, 30th October: 10:00am – 12:00pm

There will be at least two calls. A third call may be scheduled if required. Please note: This is a technical sprint; therefore, the scope is limited to fixes to existing FHIR assets and guidance.

Proposed discussion topics include:

  • 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 bindings relating to Appointment.serviceType
  • Discuss terminology used in UKCore-AllergyManifestation
  • Update guidance on using sct-descid

The full list of discussion items can be found in the UK Core Clinical and Technical Assurance Documentation Pack.
The UK Core guide for this sprint is the UK Core Implementation Guide Current Draft Build.

The key value of this Clinical and Technical Assurance process is to have a multi-disciplinary collaboration in an agile team and provide the ability to improve the quality of the product for all. It helps stakeholders, including vendors, to understand the rationale and details behind the design based on use cases. Implementation issues can be raised, and collaborative resolution of these issues can be obtained before the specifications are published. The process promotes consistency in FHIR assets across different programmes and use cases to support interoperability.


The current schedule for Sprint 8 is as below:

  • Proposed documentation pack review
    • Initial kick off call: Tuesday, 28th October, 10:00am – 12:00pm
    • Second call: Thursday, 30th October, 10:00am – 12:00pm
    • Third call if required 1st week in November
  • Publication of final documentation pack: Early December
  • Wider community review period of final documentation pack: 3 weeks (November)
  • Consolidated feedback review and disposition call: date to be confirmed
  • Retro/Lessons Learned call: date to be confirmed
  • Publication of pre-release: date to be confirmed
  • Pre-release review period: 2 weeks post-publication

If you would like to register your interest to be involved, please email us at england.interoperabilityteam@nhs.net and we will send you the invites. We look forward to your participation in this Clinical & Technical Assurance Sprint. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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