Notes: 

Definition:
CDS COPY RECIPIENT IDENTITY is the 5-character NHS ORGANISATION CODE (or valid default code) for an ORGANISATION indicated as a CDS COPY RECIPIENT IDENTITY of the Commissioning data.

Usage:
A Recipient may be an agency or service provider that carries out the receiving (and perhaps other) processes on behalf of the NHS ORGANISATION that ultimately uses the data. There may be multiple recipients for Commissioning data.

Default codes for CDS COPY RECIPIENT IDENTITIES are detailed in the Commissioning Data Set Addressing Grid.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
schema	ORGANISATION CODE (COPY RECIPIENT IDENTITY)
plural	CDS COPY RECIPIENT IDENTITIES