NHS Booking and Referral Standard
Information Standard Notice
Acting under delegated authority from the Secretary of State for Health, the Data Coordination Board has approved a change to an existing information standard for publication under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Important: Full conformance date
You must comply with this change by the full conformance date:
Standard definition
- Unique identifier
DAPB4060 Amd 99-2021
- Name
- NHS Booking and Referral Standard
- Approval date
- 23 March 2023
- Publication date
- 13 April 2023
- Documentation
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Standard definition
- Description
- 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.
About this change
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Applies to
- NHS 111/clinical assessment services (CAS)
- Accident and Emergency departments (A&E)
- Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC)
- Impacts upon
- 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.
- Link to further information
- Further information
Contacts
- Sponsor
Radhika Rangaraju, Director of e-Referral Service and Digital, Diagnostics Capability, NHS England
- SRO
- Radhika Rangaraju, Director of e-Referral Service and Digital, Diagnostics Capability, NHS England
- Business Lead
- Will Jager, Lead Delivery Manager, NHS England
- Help Desk
- Please state ‘Booking and Referral Standard’ in the subject line.
Dates
- Implementation Date
- 15 April 2023