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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

PublishedClosed

Publication Date

Effective Date

Incentives / Funding

No

Incentive / Funding Dates

N/A

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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.

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Additional MUST Epic added to Referral Management - GP Capability

E00441 - send GP Practice Outbound Referrals to Community Pharmacies for Patients

As a Health or Care Professional

I want to send GP Practice Outbound Referrals to Community Pharmacies for Patients

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

Acceptance criterion 1: send GP Practice Outbound Referrals to Community Pharmacies for Patients

Given the Health or Care Professional is permitted to manage Outbound Referrals from GP Practices to Community Pharmacies for Patients

When the Health or Care Professional selects to send an Outbound Referral from a GP Practice to a Community Pharmacy

Then the GP Practice Outbound Referral is sent

E00441 - Additional Implementation Details

Solutions MUST comply with the following when implementing this Epic:

  • Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) Standard

New Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) Interoperability Standard

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) v1.0.0

Updates to the Interoperability Standard:

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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 BaRS Implementation Guide

  • The are no other dependent framework standards

Full Specification

Assurance Approach

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