Guidance for populating the NEWS2 Sub-score.

Important: Site under development by NHS Digital, It is advised not to develop against these specifications until a formal announcement has been made.

Use case

A system needs the NEWS2 of a patient that is held on another system.

Security

• utilises TLS Mutual Authentication for system level authorization
• utilises a JSON Web Token (JWT) to transmit clinical Consumer system identity and authorisation details

Search parameters

Provider systems SHALL support the following search parameters:

</tr>Observation code for NEWS2NEWS2 from date

	Name	Type	Description	Paths
`nhs number`	identifier	The NHS Number
`code`		token
`start`		dateTime
`end`		dateTime	NEWS2 end date

Note: The supported search parameters should be included in the FHIR Capability Statement.

_include parameters

Provider systems SHALL support the following include parameters:

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