We are attempting to upload a pointer for a patient registered in Wales. We received the following 400 response error:
'ORGANISATION_NOT_FOUND'.
Are Welsh patients excluded?
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The NRL does not currently contain any pointers for Welsh patients. Our publicly available controller catalogue details which organisations are using NRL, and their capabilities (i.e. which pointer types they are providing and/or consuming).
Welsh organisations and patients are not currently supported. If/when a use case comes along, and pointers for Welsh pointers need to be shared, we will need to update our Data Sharing Agreement.
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A related question “How do you determine a Patient is Welsh?”
What we are planning to do is after tracing the patient via PDS FHIR API is use the returned GP Practice ODS.
With this code you can then use https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/organisation-data-terminology e.g. GP Surgery is W91022
GET https://sandbox.api.service.nhs.uk/organisation-data-terminology-api/fhir/OrganizationAffiliation?primary-organization=W91022&active=true
Find the entry with the RE6 code in this case 7A1
https://sandbox.api.service.nhs.uk/organisation-data-terminology-api/fhir/OrganizationAffiliation?primary-organization=7A1&active=true
Which should return an entry with a RE6 code, and organisation = W00 which is Wales
p.s. it appears PDS FHIR API Int environment doesn’t support Welsh GP practices, so this only works on live and so it’s not currently possible to identify Welsh patients on NRL Int
When you say “doesn’t support Welsh practices” could you clarify what you mean?
Have you reached out to the test data team to see if they can help you here?
