NHS Notify – FHIR Letter Printing Implementation Guide - Local Development build (v0.1.0) built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) Build Tools. See the Directory of published versions

Guidance

Guidance

Identifiers

• NHS Number system: https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number.
  If a Patient resource is provided, include UK Core NHS Number Verification Status when known.
  References: UK Core extension and NHS guidance.
  • https://simplifier.net/guide/UK-Core-Implementation-Guide-STU2/Home/ProfilesandExtensions/ExtensionLibrary/Extension-UKCore-NHSNumberVerificationStatus.page.md?version=current
• Sending Trust (Organization) – ODS code: https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/ods-organization-code.
  Validate against the ODS FHIR API if required.
  • https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/organisation-data-service-fhir

PDF handling

Use DocumentReference with content.attachment metadata and set attachment.url to a Binary carrying the base64 PDF (contentType = application/pdf).

• https://build.fhir.org/documentreference.html
• https://build.fhir.org/binary.html

Linking context

Use CommunicationRequest.about[] to reference Appointment, Location, etc.

• https://www.hl7.org/fhir/2020Sep/communicationrequest.shex.html

Submission bundle

Submit a single transaction Bundle with urn:uuid: references so the server can resolve entries atomically.