Urgent and Emergency Care Clinically Ready to Proceed Timestamp

This is the first date, time and time zone that the Care Professional, authorised to discharge the patient from an Urgent and Emergency Care service, makes a clinical decision that the patient no longer requires ongoing care in the Urgent and Emergency Care service.

The Patient will have one of the following outcomes:

• Admitted to a ward

• Transferred to a designated department/clinical service area outside the Urgent and Emergency Care service but within the same Health Care Provider

• Transferred to another Health Care Provider for continuation of care

• Discharged from the Urgent and Emergency Care service

Format: maximum 25 character alphanumeric

A timestamp is represented with the components of date, time and either the number of hours offset (plus or minus) from Greenwich Mean Time, or the letter Z to signify that it is the same as Greenwich Mean Time.

Offset time is restricted to:

• +01:00

• +00:00

• -00:00

Examples of valid formats are:

• 2020-08-21T10:15:20+01:00 (British Summer Time (GMT + 1 Hour))

• 2020-08-21T10:15:20+00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)

• 2020-08-21T10:15:20-00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time)

• 2020-08-21T09:18:00Z (Greenwich Mean Time)

To avoid confusion, if the timestamp occurs at midnight the time recorded should never be 00:00, it should always be either 23:59 or 00:01.