NHS number change event

Events inform subscribers of a particular type of change that has occurred in the event publishing service. 

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This event is triggered when the status of a patient’s NHS number changes within the Personal Demographics Service (PDS). For example, if the NHS number was marked as invalidated or replaced.

This event is currently in beta.

Subscribers can choose to receive a notification of an event in their preferred format. This is specified when creating a subscription.

Supported formats: 

• CloudEvent: schema / example 

• FHIR R4 Bundle: schema / example 

Formats differ in their presentation only; the content is the same. 

Subscribers must typically use a synchronous API of the event publishing service to retrieve full details of the event or change. 

Event notifications contain information to facilitate this. This may be a URL pointing to a RESTful FHIR resource or some other identifier meaningful to the source system.

Publishing services may have more than one API available to retrieve this information. Details of events published by the Personal Demographics Service are retrieved:

• PDS FHIR (preferred) 

• HL7v3 

When subscribing to an event, it is possible to define notification filters; for example, ‘only notify me of events for a specific ODS number, or NHS number’.

This event currently has no filtering capability. The ability to filter on NHS number is currently in development.