Ensures that suppliers Solutions are supported by robust business continuity plans and disaster recovery measures.

Supports the management of clinical risk and Patient safety.

This Standard underpins all commercial activity relating to the Catalogue. It does this by defining a number of rules governing the commercial relationship of relevant parties and by setting out standards of behaviour and principles of access to data and services charges. 

Supports best practices for infrastructure and hosting of systems. For example, ensuring that systems are cost effective, secure and energy efficient.

Supports the controls needed to ensure that sensitive Personal Data is kept confidential, is accurate and is available to authorised users when required.

Enables NHS Digital to assess the risk associated with the Compliance Assessment of the Solution against appropriate Overarching Standards.

Supports suppliers in the delivery and management of services that support and provide their Solutions.

Ensures that Suppliers' software delivery test processes are of sufficient quality and rigour.

Defines the training activities and collateral expected from Suppliers to support the buyers and users of their Solutions.

Defines a comprehensive set of Standards, interfaces and protocols that Solutions and systems will use when interoperating.

IM1 is a mechanism for accessing data held in GP Systems (Systems providing one or more Capabilities as part of the GP IT Futures Framework).

GP Connect allows authorised clinical staff to share and view GP Practice clinical information and data between IT systems, quickly and efficiently.