FHIR Implementation Guide for the NHS e-Referral Service

eRS-Patient-1

This Patient resource has been constrained to support the NHS e-Referral Service requirements.

This is a supporting resource in the current development phase for the Referral Request resource and the extension Referrals for Review List. In this release this only carries the patient identifier. A future version of the development will support more information for this resource.

For further details on this please contact the NHS e-Referral Service programme.

NameCard.TypeDescription & Constraints
..PatientPatientThis Patient resource is constrained as a supporting resource for the e-RS project.

...identifier (NHSNumber)1..1IdentifierAn NHS Number identifier for this patient

....system1..1UriThe namespace for the identifier
Fixed Value http://fhir.nhs.net/Id/nhs-number

....value1..1StringThe value that is unique
Example Value 9900002831

Path Name Binding Strength ValueSet
.Patient.name.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/name-use
.Patient.telecom.system system Required http://hl7.org/fhir/valueset-contact-point-system
.Patient.telecom.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/DSTU2/valueset-contact-point-use
.Patient.address.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/address-use
.Patient.contact.relationship relationship Extensible http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/patient-contact-relationship
.Patient.contact.telecom.system system Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/contact-point-system
.Patient.contact.telecom.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/contact-point-use
.Patient.contact.address.type type Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/address-type
.Patient.contact.gender gender Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/administrative-gender
.Patient.communication.language language Required http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47

eRS-Patient-1

Examples Description JSON File
Patient NHS Patient example