Part of Child Health Interoperability (CHI) implementation guide for health visiting services

PDS death notification

PDS death notification event messages are generated by the Spine and published to the NEMS when a patient’s death notification status is changed within PDS.

1. Data fields available in this message

This table lists the data fields in the PDS death notification message.

DCH FHIR event
Death date
Death time
Notified date
Status of death notification

2. PDS death notification messages checklist questions

These questions can be used to capture data about your services:

How are you currently notified of a death having occurred?
How do you receive the message, from whom and in what format?
Who processes the message and how do you process it (Number of staff involved)?
Is the information you receive complete and timely? If not, what is the impact of not having the information or receiving it late?
What do you do with the data once received?
How long does it take to process the data?
How many messages do you receive per day?
Where does this information go to next?

3. Sample AS-IS death notification map image

Download the AS-IS and TO-BE death notification maps.

Download the PDS death notification AS-IS map

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Download the PDS death notification TO-BE map

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4. What benefits can be achieved

Do you currently?	With NEMS	Which means	What may be impacted/	Possible measures before and after
Receive death notifications from different sources?	You will receive informal and formal death notifications as they are updated on the Spine for your whole population	As an additional failsafe and/or opportunity to redefine the process	Timeliness and completeness of notifications received	Number of death notifications received.
Ever receive death notifications late?	You will receive informal and formal death notifications as they are updated on the Spine	There is less risk of contacting a family inappropriately. You can pro-actively follow up with your usual source, for example CDOP.	enhanced robustness through additional data source need for additional checks.	Any late notifications Any occurrences of inappropriate contact
Inform other parties and carry out failsafe/checking?	All interested parties (GPs, health visitors, SN, child health information services) will receive the notifications at the same time as you. (When they are live on NEMS).	Everyone will have consistent information and some failsafe/checking or communication may be reduced (this will require some process SOP review).	Timeliness of notifications enhanced robustness time involved in notifying others.	Effort before and after.

Do you currently?

With NEMS

Which means

What may be impacted/

Possible measures before and after

Receive death notifications from different sources?

You will receive informal and formal death notifications as they are updated on the Spine for your whole population

As an additional failsafe and/or opportunity to redefine the process

Timeliness and completeness of notifications received

Number of death notifications received.

Ever receive death notifications late?

You will receive informal and formal death notifications as they are updated on the Spine

There is less risk of contacting a family inappropriately. You can pro-actively follow up with your usual source, for example CDOP.

enhanced robustness through additional data source need for additional checks.

Any late notifications

Any occurrences of inappropriate contact

Inform other parties and carry out failsafe/checking?

All interested parties (GPs, health visitors, SN, child health information services) will receive the notifications at the same time as you. (When they are live on NEMS).

Everyone will have consistent information and some failsafe/checking or communication may be reduced (this will require some process SOP review).

Timeliness of notifications enhanced robustness time involved in notifying others.

Effort before and after.

Last edited: 17 January 2022 2:54 pm

PDS death notification