Practitioner

Represents attributed practitioners, staff and other persons referenced by entries in the patient record. Typically these will be clinicians associated with a practice but may also include external practitioners such as consultants and other Health Care Professionals (HCPs.) 'Foreign' practitioners propagated into a practice via GP2GP or other messaging transactions who are attributed to entries in the patient record may also be included. Typically in these cases there is a degree of information lossage i.e. fewer identifiers and greater reliance on names; Combines Practitioner and Practitioner Role resources into a single record for simplicity. The cases where this means redundant records are required to account for multiple instances of the same practitioner in different organisations should be rare.

Table 1. Practitioner

Database Field Name	Field Description	Sensitive Field	Identifiable Field	Field Type	Field Length	Optionality
employer_id	Reference to the organisation the practitioner is acting for in this role	Yes	No	String	an36	M
forename	Practitioner forename	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an100	O
gmp_number	The NHS prescription services identifier for a GMP	Yes	No	String	an8	O
hcp_type	The GPES healthcare professional (HCP) type vocabulary mapped HCP type	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an3	O
id	Identifier that is used to reference practitioner record within Extract. This has purely extract scope to allow linkage within a given extract. There are no guarantees that this forms a usable identifier beyond a single extract	Yes	No	String	an36	M
identifier_issuing_body	The namespace of the professional body issuing the identifier for the practitioner	Yes	No	String	n2	O
local_id	The local staff identifier on source system	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an20	O
local_job_role	The local (system defined) job role name for the practitioner	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an256	O
local_specialty	The locally defined name of the specialty provided by the organisation in the context referenced within the extract	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an255	O
professional_identifier	The professional identifier for the practitioner issued by a professional body e.g. GMC code or NMC code	Yes	No	String	max an12	O
sds_job_role_code	The Spine Directory Service (SDS) job role code for the role the practitioner was acting in	Yes	No	String	an5	O
sds_role_profile_id	The Spine Directory Service (SDS) role profile id for the practitioners role	Yes	No	String	min n1 max n256	O
sds_user_id	The Spine Directory Service (SDS) user id for the practitioner	Yes	No	String	min n1 max n256	O
specialty	The specialty provided by the practitioner in this role	Yes	No	String	n3	O
surname	Practitioner surname	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an100	O
title	Practitioner title	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an35	O