NHSE SD
Version: 1.0.2 | Published: 23 Aug 2024 | Updated: 467 days ago

NHS Booking and Referral Standard

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Summary

Type:
  • Information standards
  • Technical standards and specifications
Effective From:
15 April 2023
Applies To:
  • NHS 111/clinical assessment services (CAS)
  • Accident and Emergency departments (A&E)
  • Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC)
Impacts On:
Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
Topics:
  • Appointment / scheduling
  • Data definitions and terminologies
  • HL7
  • Interoperability
  • Referrals
Care Settings:
  • Hospital
  • Urgent and Emergency Care
Alternate Name:
Also known as BaRS.

Documentation

Description:

The creation of NHS Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) delivers the strategic interoperability to facilitate a booking, and for any associated referral information to be shared between a sending organisation such as an NHS 111 Provider, and a receiving organisation such as an Emergency Department.

BaRS is therefore an interoperability standard between patient record systems that enables booking and referral information to be sent between NHS healthcare system providers quickly, safely and in a format that is useful to clinicians.

Based on use cases and implementation of BaRS at different organisation types it is anticipated that there will be the need to amend the standard further down the line to include and support other new use cases.

Fixing a specific conformance date for the totality of BaRS is not feasible as the scope of the standard will expand over time as new use cases for its application are requested and subsequently created by the BaRS development team. Therefore, conformance will be monitored in line with the review dates and/or any formal change to the Information Standard.

Post-implementation review dates of 31 March 2024 (initial review) and 31 March 2025 (intermediate review) have been set.

Documentation Link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/information-standards/information-standards-and-data-collections-including-extractions/publications-and-notifications/standards-and-collections/dapb4060-booking-and-referral-standard-bars
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Document Control

Sponsor:
Radhika Rangaraju, Director of e-Referral Service and Digital, Diagnostics Capability, NHS England\n
Approval Date:
23 March 2023
Business Lead:
Will Jager, Lead Delivery Manager, NHS England
Scope:
NHS Services
SRO:
Radhika Rangaraju, Director of e-Referral Service and Digital, Diagnostics Capability, NHS England
Technical Committee:
Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)
Mandated:
Yes
Status:
active
Collaborating Organisations:
* The BaRS has been endorsed by the NHS England Architectural Board. * The Professional Record and Standards Body (PRSB) has partnered the early development of the BaRS, in particular the application of BaRS from any 111 sending system.

Legal Authorities

Legal Authority:
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Legal Authority Description:
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

Origin

Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue
URL:
https://nhse-sd-art-ui.metadata.works
Link:
https://nhse-sd-art-ui.metadata.works/browser/dataset/422/0