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Capability assessment checks that the Catalogue Solution can be used to achieve the business outcomes described against the capabilities / epics in the capability model to which it maps. It does not check that the business outcomes can be achieved efficiently or the usability of the Catalogue Solution.
Compliance testing is a risk-based approach to testing that the Catalogue Solution meets the Standards applicable to it. This means that higher risk aspects (e.g. clinical safety) of the Catalogue Solution are subject to more testing than lower risk aspects (e.g. conformance to a service management process), with low risk aspects often simply requiring the supplier to self-declare that they are compliant.
To summarise:
- the objective of the capability assessment activity undertaken by NHS Digital is to ensure that the functional scope of the Catalogue Solution is as advertised on the Catalogue.
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