Death notification event
This event notifies subscribers when a patient’s death is registered via the Multicast Notification Service API (MNS).
To subscribe to this event, use the Create Subscriptions API documentation.
Understanding events
Events inform subscribers of a particular type of change that has occurred in the event publishing service.
Event name
pds-death-notification-2
Event trigger
This event is triggered when a patient’s death status in Personal Demographics Service (PDS) is changed.
Events status
This event is currently in private beta.
Event schema
Subscribers can choose to receive a notification of an event in their preferred format. This is specified when creating a subscription.
Supported formats:
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FHIR R4
Formats differ in their presentation only; the content is the same.
Get event details
Subscribers must typically use a synchronous API of the event publishing service to retrieve full details of the event or change.
Event notifications contain information to facilitate this. This may be a URL pointing to a RESTful FHIR resource or some other identifier meaningful to the source system.
Publishing services may have more than one API available to retrieve this information. Details of events published by the Personal Demographics Service are retrieved:
Event subscription filtering
When subscribing to an event, it is possible to define notification filters; for example, ‘only notify me of events for a specific ODS number, or NHS number’.
This event currently has no filtering capability.
Versions
- pds-death-notification-2 (latest)
- FHIR R4
- pds-death-notification-1 (deprecated)
- CloudEvent
Last edited: 7 May 2026 2:00 pm