Notice
- Important: This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
- This Implementation Guide is currently in Draft and SHOULD NOT be used for development or active implementation without express direction from the NHS England Genomics Unit.
Alternative Transport Mechanisms
MESH
The Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) is the main secure large file transfer service used across health and social care organisations.
More information on MESH can be found on the NHSDigital pages.
The following flows depicts two ways of using MESH to communicate test requests and responses.
The NHS England Genomics Unit is investigating requesting and reporting via FHIR Messaging to align with existing vendor capabilities, and to consolidate approaches for proactive report forwarding between Pathology and Genomics.
The Genomics Unit invites parties interested in providing requirements or testing messaging solutions to get in touch with the the NHS England team via email: england.genomics@nhs.net
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