A unique identifier for an ORGANISATION.

Note:

• ORGANISATION IDENTIFIERS are governed by the fundamental standard for "Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data" (HSC Org Ref Data).
• The standard only relates to ORGANISATION IDENTIFIERS which are maintained and published by the Organisation Data Service (ODS). See Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data.

The Format/Length of a published code for an:

• Organisation is min an3 max an8
• Organisation Site is min an5 max an9.

ORGANISATION CODE will be replaced with ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER, which is the most recent approved national information standard to describe the required definition.

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
odsxmlschema	HSCOrg, HSCSite
plural	ORGANISATION IDENTIFIERS