Generic Change of GP event

Sharing Clinical Data Multicast Notification Service (MNS)
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Previously, the Multicast Notification Service provided a Change of GP event which could be used to subscribe to any GP registration changes for a patient — whether that patient was changing their GP registration or deregistering entirely.

This event seems to have been replaced by the generic PDS change event, which includes allows subscribers to filter using changed_gp_to so that only events where a patient has switched to a specific GP are published by MNS.

However, it seems like there’s now a gap here — if a subscriber wants to know about any GP change event (transfer or deduction), what subscription criteria should be used? Does something like the below work:

eventType='pds-record-change-2' AND nhsnumber='<nhs_number>' AND (changed_gp_to IS NOT NULL OR changed_gp_to IS NULL)

Alternately, is there a plan for a boolean filter like changed_gp to be added, along the same lines as changed_address or changed_telecom?

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Hi, The original intention was to require a criteria as you have described, unfortunately we have found an issue with this approach and are looking at introducing changed_gp and the changed_gp_to field will still contain the new gp.

I’ll update this thread when the change is available in the PTL INT environment.