Customer Interface Requirements: Person

Overview

Providing information about the customer interface requirements for the merged resource type Person

Resource specific requirements

All Person resources must contain at least one Identifier. As with all Identifiers, this must contain a system and value. Example:

{
  "resourceType": "Person",
  "identifier": [
    {
      "system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number",
      "value": "9999999999"
    }
  ]
  ...
}

Adding an Identifier to a Person resource is an assertion that you are guaranteeing the identity of the Person, and such identifiers should be treated as immutable. There is no automatic pathway which permits the removal or subsequent amendment of an Identifier once it has been added to a Person; please contact PKB for further details as to the manual corrective pathway in such a case.
Any Identifier which is representative of a national id (e.g. NHS number; CHI; NIN) must conform to the data validity requirements for that system.
A single Person resource must not have more than one Identifier with the same system, e.g. multiple NHS numbers.