We are integrating the Healthcare Worker API alongside our e-RS implementation and need to resolve the referring clinician’s name from the A005 response.
This was raised previously in this post, which I commented on at the time, but it doesn’t appear to have been resolved.
The only reference to a clinician identity we can find in the response is on the REFERRER-category DocumentReference array in the Extension-eRS-AttachedBy-1 extension, which provides an SDS User ID. This aligns with what is in the docs for A005.
Is the REFERRER ID in DocumentReferences a reliable way to obtain the referring clinician’s SDS ID from A005? It’s not clear if the user who attached the document is guaranteed to be the same person who is making the referral.
We have already implemented this for Advice and Guidance A024 (Retrieve Advice and Guidance Request Summary), where the response includes a PractitionerRole in the contained array with both the practitioner’s SDS User ID and the organisation’s ODS code. We’d expect similar information to be available for A005, but it doesn’t appear to be.
Are there any plans to include this info in A005 in future? I did fill out the NHS e-Referral Service Ideas form with this request a year ago.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Gareth