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RM191

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12.10.0

Type

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Title

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS)

Description

The Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) is an Interoperability Standard for healthcare IT systems that enables booking and Referral information to be sent between NHS service providers.

Date Added

Standards and Capabilities

Referral Management - GP, Interoperability Standard

Change Route

Managed Capacity - Other

Change Type

New

Status

Published

Publication Date

Effective Date

Incentives / Funding

TBCNo

Incentive / Funding Dates

TBCN/A

Background

In 2019, the Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS) was introduced, supporting Referrals into Community Pharmacy for a minor illness consultation and/or an emergency supply of medicines. Initially the service focused on channel shifting Patients from the 111 services (telephony and 111 online), but it has since been expanded to include Referrals from General Practices. Currently these Referrals are being made via a myriad of methods, Pharmrefer which sends an email message if the pharmacy is not using Pharmoutcomes and NHS Mail where the GP may email the pharmacy.

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Suppliers to provide feedback for BaRS Core by the 30th June.

Suppliers to provide feedback for BaRS Applications by the 10th July, once the link is updated with the GP to Pharmacy Application on the 3rd July.

Summary of Change

Additional MUST Epic added to Referral Management - GP Capability

E00441 -

electronically

send GP Practice Outbound Referrals

for Patients

to Community Pharmacies for Patients

As a Health or Care Professional

I want to

be able to electronically send Referrals for Patients

send GP Practice Outbound Referrals to Community Pharmacies for Patients

So that Community Pharmacy Health or Care Professionals can receive Referrals for Patients

can be electronically sent to Community Pharmacies

Acceptance criterion 1:

electronically send a Referral for a Patient to a Community Pharmacy

send GP Practice Outbound Referrals to Community Pharmacies for Patients

Given the Health or Care Professional is permitted

to electronically send a Referral for a Patients to Community Pharmacy

to manage Outbound Referrals from GP Practices to Community Pharmacies for Patients

When the Health or Care Professional selects to

electronically

send

a

an Outbound Referral

for

from a

Patient

GP Practice to a Community Pharmacy

Then the GP Practice Outbound Referral

for the Patient

is

electronically

sent

to the Community Pharmacy

E00441 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

New Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) Interoperability Standard

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) v1.0.0

Updates to the Interoperability Standard:

Referral Management - GP

Interoperability Requirement

Dependencies

IM1 - Interface Mechanism Provider requirements  (if offering all Foundation capabilities)

  • NHS login service

e-Referral Service (eRS)

e-Referral Service FHIR API - Primary Care Referrer

For Suppliers of new services or applications:

  • Personal Demographics Service (PDS) - using PDS FHIR API

  • Authentication and Access - using NHS Care Identity Service 2 API

NHS e-Referrals Service - Referrer Compliance Document v1

For Suppliers of services which ARE currently deployed into an operational environment:

  • Personal Demographics Service (PDS) *

  • External Interface Specification (EIS)

  • NHS Messaging Implementation Manual (MIM)

*May be sourced indirectly by existing PDS interface provided by PIM Solution, either via API to PIM Solution, or as a shared application resource if delivered as part of the same Solution.

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS)

  • BaRS provides a list of prerequisites in the

https://simplifier.net/guide/nhsbookingandreferralstandard

Full Specification

Assurance Approach

Follow this link to find information about the assurance approach for the BaRS Standard.