ePMA Implementation Guidance for FHIR STU3

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.

Element: code

A code (or set of codes) that specify this medication, or a textual description if no code is available. Usage note: This could be a standard medication code such as a code from RxNorm, SNOMED CT, IDMP etc. It could also be a national or local formulary code, optionally with translations to other code systems.

All medication must be represented using NHS dm+d terminology.

  • The code.coding.system must be http://snomed.info/sct.
  • The code.coding.code must be the NHS dm+d concept code.
  • The code.coding.display must be the NHS dm+d concept description.
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