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Location Resource

The SDK supports the following features relevant to the Location profile as defined with the UK Core.

Extensions​

No extensions are defined for the Location resource within UK Core.

Identifiers​

ODS Site Code​

The system defined for ODS site codes within UK Core is https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/ods-site-code

This is defined within the SDK as UkCoreUris.SystemOdsSiteCode

As such, an ODS site code identifier can be defined in the following way:

using FhirUkCore.Enums;
using Hl7.Fhir.Model;

Identifier id01 = new Identifier(UkCoreUris.SystemOdsSiteCode, "ABC123");

Location loc = new Location();
loc.Identifier.Add(id01);

SetOdsSiteCode​

UK Core states that there can only be one identifier set using an ODS site code.
As such, this can be reduced to the following, allowing the identifier to be set directly.

SetOdsSiteCode()
using FhirUkCore.ExtensionMethods;
using Hl7.Fhir.Model;

Location loc = new Location();
loc.SetOdsSiteCode("ABC123");

GetOdsSiteCode​

A similar approach can be used to return the ODS site code from a location resource.
If no ODS site code identifier is set, then NULL is returned.
If multiple ODS site code identifiers exist, then the first is returned.

GetOdsSiteCode()
using FhirUkCore.ExtensionMethods;
using Hl7.Fhir.Model;

Identifier id01 = loc.GetOdsSiteCode();

HasOdsSiteCode​

If the intention is just to check for the presence of an identifier, then a boolean can be returned using the following.

HasOdsSiteCode()
using FhirUkCore.ExtensionMethods;
using Hl7.Fhir.Model;

Boolean idSet = loc.HasOdsSiteCode();