This data element will be used in the national transmission of the Community Information Data Set. The Community Information Data Set is initially being introduced for local use only, from 1 April 2012. A future Information Standard and Collection (including Extraction) Notice will be published to notify providers and system suppliers of the requirement to flow the data set nationally, and give further details relating to unique record identifiers and how the data will be handled by the receiving system.  The definition of the ORGANISATION CODE (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION) is given below to enable providers and system suppliers to prepare the data for national flow.

Notes:
ORGANISATION CODE (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION) is the same as attribute ORGANISATION CODE.

ORGANISATION CODE (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION) is the ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF PROVIDER) at the time that a CIDS UNIQUE IDENTIFIER for a record in a Community Information Data Set submission to the Secondary Uses Service was first created.

The Secondary Uses Service uses the ORGANISATION CODE (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION) and the CIDS UNIQUE IDENTIFIER to uniquely identify a Community Information Data Set record over its lifetime, when the Net Change Community Information Data Set Update Mechanism is used. 

Therefore when using Net Change Submission Mechanism, it is imperative that, even if the ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF PROVIDER) of the Health Care Provider changes (for example, there is a merger with another ORGANISATION), the ORGANISATION CODE (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION) carried in the record remains the same if the record is resubmitted to the Secondary Uses Service.  If this is not done, a duplicate record will be created.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	ORGANISATION CODES (PROVIDER AT RECORD CREATION)