Electronic Prescription Service v6.11 Part 2

Electronic Prescription Service v6.11 Part 2

ID

RM101

Version

1.1.0

Type

Roadmap Item



Title

Electronic Prescription Service v6.11 Part 2

Description

Implementation of EPS specification v6.11 Part 2

Date Added

Aug 7, 2020 

Standards and Capabilities

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Prescribing

Change Route

Managed Capacity - Other

Change Type

Uplift

Status

Closed

Publication Date

Sep 9, 2021 

Effective Date

Jan 31, 2022 

Incentives / Funding

No

Incentive Dates

N/A



Background

All suppliers should be compliant with Prescribing Systems Compliance Specification v6.11 (Document reference NPFIT-ETP-EDB-0025), published 15 Oct 2018.

Further information on the EPS requirements can be found here



Outline Plan

All suppliers are required to be compliant with the requirements 5.2.1, 5.2.5, 5.2.7, 6.7.7, 6.7.8, 6.9.10 by Jan 31, 2022 



Summary of Change

The requirements within Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Interop Standard ‘Requirements’ section have been separated out as reflected below. 

  Applicable Suppliers 

Requirement

Level

  Applicable Suppliers 

Requirement

Level

Suppliers of services which ARE currently deployed into an operational environment, and have an existing PDS compliance.

GPSoC CCN057 and EPS Prescribing Systems Compliance Specification v6.0, or a later version.

MUST

EPS Prescribing Systems Compliance Specification v6.11 (Document reference NPFIT-ETP-EDB-0025) Requirement 6.4.4 only

MUST

EPS Prescribing Systems Compliance Specification v6.11 (Document reference NPFIT-ETP-EDB-0025) Requirement 5.2.1, 5.2.5, 5.2.7, 6.7.7, 6.7.8, 6.9.10 only

MUST



Capability Associations and Interop Dependencies

This section lists the Capabilities this Standard is associated with and any other Interop Standards which are needed to meet this Standard 

Prescribing

A solution which implements Prescribing will be expected to be compliant with EPS v6.11



Full Specification

Please refer the specification attached here EPS Prescribing Systems Compliance Specification v6.11 (Document reference NPFIT-ETP-EDB-0025)



Assurance Approach

Once development is complete and suppliers are in a position to test, they must contact the EPS team via epssupport@nhs.net to arrange a witness testing slot to provide evidence on specified scenarios. Successful completion of the tests will constitute compliance against this Roadmap Item.