# Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide

26.0.0 - Trial

Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide, published by Australian Digital Health Agency. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 26.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/AuDigitalHealth/HCPD/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Extension: New Patient Availability

Official URL: http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability | Version: 26.0.0
Active as of 2026-06-17 | Computable Name: New_Patient_Availability
Usage:Jurisdiction: Australia
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Indicates whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients. Patterned after PCA New Patient Availability extension.

Context of Use: HealthcareService

This extension addresses the business need for healthcare consumers and referrers to identify services that are accepting new patients, supporting efficient healthcare access and referral workflows within the provider directory system.

Context of Use

This extension may be used on the following element(s)

- Element ID: `HealthcareService`

Usage info

Usages:

- Use this Extension: HCPD HealthcareService
- Examples for this Extension: Healthcare service with Residential Aged Care service type

You can also check for usages in the FHIR IG Statistics

### Formal Views of Extension Content

Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work.

- Differential Table
- Snapshot Table
- Statistics/References
- All

This structure is derived from Extension

Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: Bindings Constraints Obligations
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Extension |  | 0..* | Extension(4.0.1) | New Patient Availability
extension |  | 0..0 |  | Extension
url |  | 1..1 | uri | "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability"
value[x] |  | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | New patient availability status. Binding: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1 (required)
Documentation for this format

Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: Bindings Constraints Obligations
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Extension |  | 0..* | Extension(4.0.1) | New Patient Availability Constraints: ext-1
id |  | 0..1 | string | Unique id for inter-element referencing
extension |  | 0..0 |  | Extension Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url Constraints: ext-1
url |  | 1..1 | uri | "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability"
value[x] |  | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | New patient availability status. Binding: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1 (required)
Documentation for this format

This structure is derived from Extension

Summary

Simple Extension with the type CodeableConcept: Indicates whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients. Patterned after PCA New Patient Availability extension.

Context of Use: HealthcareService

Differential View

This structure is derived from Extension

Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: Bindings Constraints Obligations
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Extension |  | 0..* | Extension(4.0.1) | New Patient Availability
extension |  | 0..0 |  | Extension
url |  | 1..1 | uri | "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability"
value[x] |  | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | New patient availability status. Binding: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1 (required)
Documentation for this format

Snapshot View

Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: Bindings Constraints Obligations
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Extension |  | 0..* | Extension(4.0.1) | New Patient Availability Constraints: ext-1
id |  | 0..1 | string | Unique id for inter-element referencing
extension |  | 0..0 |  | Extension Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url Constraints: ext-1
url |  | 1..1 | uri | "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability"
value[x] |  | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | New patient availability status. Binding: https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1 (required)
Documentation for this format

This structure is derived from Extension

Summary

Simple Extension with the type CodeableConcept: Indicates whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients. Patterned after PCA New Patient Availability extension.

Context of Use: HealthcareService

Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel, Schematron

#### Terminology Bindings

Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source
Extension.value[x] | Base | required | https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1 | Not State | Unknown

#### Constraints

Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression
ele-1 | error | Extension, Extension.value[x] | All FHIR elements must have a @value or children | `hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())`
ext-1 | error | Extension | Must have either extensions or value[x], not both | `extension.exists() != value.exists()`