A005 - Identifying "clinical referral information"

e-Referral Service (e-RS)
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Is there anything in A005 that we can use to check if “clinical referral information”, which could have been sent from an integrated GP system, exists?

For a referral to appear on the referral for review list, they either have to have an attachment, or associated “clinical referral information”.

Our solution currently only pulls referrals with at least one attachment, to be sure that we don’t try and pull something that is partially submitted (i.e. someone has clicked submit, but not yet submitted the referral letter).

However, referrals that have associated clinical referral information may not have attachments and would therefore be missed.

Is there anything in A005 to indicate that there is this additional structured clinical info associated with the referral.

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Hi @phil.walker3 - There isn’t an indication of this on A005.

If either an attachment or CRI has been added then the clinicalInfoFirstSubmitted field will indicate as such.

You could infer that if either the clinicalInfoFirstSubmitted or clinicalInfoLastUpdated fields are set and there are no attachments, then it must have CRI attached as part of an integrated referrer system.

For the ‘partially submitted’ scenario, a referral would NOT appear on the RFR worklist and hence you won’t be processing it anyway.

In general, any referral which enters the RFR worklist will require all the referral information to be retrieved, so that a suitable clinical decision can be made.

Hope that helps!