# New Patient Availability - Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide v26.0.0

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# Health Connect Australia Provider Directory FHIR Implementation Guide

26.0.0 - Trial

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*  [Agency site](https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au) 

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**FHIR Artefacts**](artifacts.md)
* **New Patient Availability**

## 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 | |
| **Copyright/Legal**: Copyright © 2026 Australian Digital Health Agency - All rights reserved. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |

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**

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* Use this Extension: [HCPD HealthcareService](StructureDefinition-hcpd-healthcareservice.md)
* Examples for this Extension: [Healthcare service with Residential Aged Care service type](HealthcareService-example-healthconnect-healthcareservice-1.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/resource/au.gov.digitalhealth.hcpd|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-new-patient-availability.json)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-new-patient-availability.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-new-patient-availability.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-new-patient-availability.sch) 

#### Terminology Bindings

#### Constraints

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IG © 2026+ [Australian Digital Health Agency](https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/). Package au.gov.digitalhealth.hcpd#26.0.0 based on [FHIR 4.0.1](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/). Generated 2026-06-17

Links: [Table of Contents](toc.md) | [QA Report](qa.md) | [Version History](https://fhir.digitalhealth.gov.au/dh/history.html) | [Report an issue or propose a change](mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au) 

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## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "new-patient-availability",
  "url" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability",
  "version" : "26.0.0",
  "name" : "New_Patient_Availability",
  "title" : "New Patient Availability",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2026-06-17T22:44:36+00:00",
  "publisher" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/"
    },
    {
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "help@digitalhealth.gov.au"
    }]
  },
  {
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au",
      "use" : "work"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "Indicates whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients. Patterned after PCA New Patient Availability extension.\n\nContext of Use: HealthcareService",
  "useContext" : [{
    "code" : {
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/usage-context-type",
      "code" : "jurisdiction"
    },
    "valueCodeableConcept" : {
      "coding" : [{
        "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
        "code" : "AU",
        "display" : "Australia"
      }]
    }
  }],
  "purpose" : "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.",
  "copyright" : "Copyright © 2026 Australian Digital Health Agency - All rights reserved. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "HealthcareService"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension|4.0.1",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "short" : "New Patient Availability",
      "definition" : "Indicates whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients. Patterned after PCA New Patient Availability extension.\n\nContext of Use: HealthcareService"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/new-patient-availability"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "short" : "New patient availability status.",
      "definition" : "Coded indicator of whether the healthcare service is accepting new patients (bound to NCTS New Patient Availability value set).",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "CodeableConcept"
      }],
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "https://www.healthterminologies.gov.au/integration/R4/fhir/ValueSet/new-patient-availability-1"
      }
    }]
  }
}

```
