What Data is Synchronised with the PDS?
The following lists provide details of data that is currently synchronised between Vision 3 and the PDS.
Existing Synchronised Data
Vision 3 supports the following PDS data fields for synchronisation with the PDS:
- Current/usual name
- Date of birth
- Gender (Male/Female/Indeterminate)
- NHS number
- Current/main address details
- Communication details
- Consent to NHS Care Record Sharing (NCRS)
- GP practice code (registered GP code is also held locally but will not be synchronised with the PDS).
- Business effective dates
- Address details changes
- Communication/Telephone Details changes
- Contacts for Patient is now Communication - Add
- Consent to Share Clinical Data
- Primary care details (Dispensing Contractors)
Fields in which there is a genuine difference will be highlighted in red. Differences in the below are not classified as genuine differences and will not result in a field being highlighted:
- Whitespace
- Punctuation characters
- Case discrepancies
See Additions/Changes to Synchronised Data for details.