-A second Encounter resource is used to transfer the human readable reference of the newly created referral, at the Receiver side. When a referral request is made, the Receiver **should** include a new, secondary, encounter resource with the status of 'planned' in their synchronous HTTP response (200) to the Sender's request. This new 'planned' encounter will have both an Id and an Identifier value, indicating the Receiver's local reference and human readable one, respectively. This secondary, 'planned', encounter is <ins>not</ins> mandatory (cardinality of 0..1), unlike the primary encounter resource (1..1) (See the {{pagelink:APP8-EntityRelationshipDiagram}} for reference). The human readable (Identifier) reference is intended to allow Senders to provide something to the patient which they can take between services to support consistent joined up care, although, it is also a useful link for the services themselves to use when discussing a patient's transition of care. The local (Id) reference is not intended to be human readable but rather machine readable.
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