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Discharge - HL7 V3

Send a discharge report following transfer of responsibility for a patient.  It contains a summary of care events and data. 

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This integration is retired and not available for use - use Transfer of Care FHIR instead. Depending on your use case this is one of Acute Inpatient Discharge, Emergency Care Discharge or Mental Health Discharge.

Overview

Use this integration to send a discharge report following transfer of responsibility for a patient, such as from an acute hospital, emergency care or mental health care to a GP practice.  It contains a summary of care events and care data. 

Status

This integration is retired.

Technology

This integration is an HL7 V3 integration. 

For more details, see HL7 V3.

Interactions

For a full list of interactions for this integration, see the Discharge domain in the Spine Message Implementation Manual (MIM).

For details on the general structure of the interactions, see HL7 V3.

Last edited: 16 April 2026 4:10 pm