FHIR Implementation Guide for the NHS e-Referral Service

eRS-Practitioner-1

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

This is a supporting resource in the current development phase for the Appointment and Document Reference resources and the extension Referrals for Review List. In this release this only carries the practitioner 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
..PractitionerPractitionerThis Practitioner Resource is constrained for eRS requirements

...identifierA identifier for the person as this agent
Slice: Ordering: Unordered, Discriminator: system, Rules: Open at End

...identifier (SDS User ID)0..1IdentifierThe SDS identifier that uniquely identifies the person as this agent

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

....value1..1StringThe value that is unique
Example Value 123456789012

Path Name Binding Strength ValueSet
.Practitioner.name.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/name-use
.Practitioner.telecom.system system Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/contact-point-system
.Practitioner.telecom.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/contact-point-use
.Practitioner.address.use use Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/address-use
.Practitioner.address.type type Required http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/address-type
.Practitioner.practitionerRole.role role Example http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/practitioner-role
.Practitioner.qualification.code code Example http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/anzsco-occupations

eRS-Practitioner-1

Examples Description JSON File
Practitioner Practitioner example - Consultant