ID	S53
Version	1.0.0
Type	Interoperability Standard
Status	Retired
Effective Date	01 Apr 2019

Introduction

National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) is a system which manages the primary care registration service and supports GP Payments and Cervical Cancer Screening. The system maintains patient registration and their demographic details for England, Wales, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland. NHAIS HA (Health Authority) / GP interfaces allow for the two-way exchange of data covering Registration changes.

Compliance and Assurance

For advice and support on assurance please contact businesspartners@nhs.net or visit https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-business-partners

Requirements

Note that in addition to the requirements below, additional requirements relating to the recording of data and triggering of transactions are contained in Patient Information Maintenance - Standard

ID	Requirement	Level
NH01	Retransmission of a GP-NHAIS Registration EDIFACT message MUST be solely in response to a request from the receiving organisation: automatic re-transmission is not acceptable.	MUST
NH02	Interchanges carrying NHS Standard EDIFACT GP-NHAIS messages MUST conform to the mandatory requirements specified within the following document: 'Interchange Implementation Guidelines for General Practice Systems'	MUST
NH03	The system MUST conform to the general GP-NHAIS messaging specifications contained within the following document: ‘General Practitioner System Specification Communications and General System, v4.0’	MUST
NH04	The system MUST implement the FHSREG message in accordance with the following documents: NHAIS Registration GP System Specifications (see attachments below) FHSREG' EDIFACT Message Implementation Guidelines Version 1.4 (see GP Systems v2 Baseline Index)	MUST
NH05	The system MUST support communication with at least 4 NHAIS systems per GP Practice at any one time.	MUST