I see the following field in the response schema
identifier: [{
required
system: {missing-type-info}
required
Allowed: https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/ers-request-id
value: string
required
}]
What is 'ers-request-id’? My ask here is whether the UBRN is unique per referral request (with a referral having multiple versions).
If an A&G request is converted to a referral, does the UBRN remain constant?
Thank you!
Hello mungles2025,
What is 'ers-request-id’?
This is the UBRN.
My ask here is whether the UBRN is unique per referral request (with a referral having multiple versions).
Yes, a referral will keep the same UBRN across its versions.
If an A&G request is converted to a referral, does the UBRN remain constant?
Yes, the same UBRN is used when an A&G request is converted into a referral.
Thanks,
Balal
Hi @mungles2025 -
Just to add to this, for completeness.
While a UBRN is unique for one referral, there can be a chain of UBRNs if it is onward referred - a referral pathway.
This is explained in section 2.11 Retrieve referral request:
A referral pathway in e-RS can be made up of more than one referral (UBRN). For example, a referral is booked and seen in a general knee clinical assessment service (UBRN #1), and the service decides to onward refer to a more specialist knee meniscus service (UBRN #2). This would result in two UBRNs for the referral pathway. Of course, there could be more related UBRNs if the referral is onward referred multiple times.
Thank you for the reply.
If there are multiple referrals on a pathway (i.e. there are multiple UBRNs), is there a way to capture linked UBRNs on that pathway?
Hi @mungles2025 - Yes, the “supportingInfo” extension within the A005 response will list all the related referrals in the pathway, e.g.
},
“supportingInfo”: [
{
“reference”: “ReferralRequest/000000070004”
}
We have an example in our Sandbox titled “ReferralRequest` with related ReferralRequest” if you want to see the whole response.
Thanks,
Z.