NHS Booking and Referral Standard

Guide v1.4.0 | Core v1.2.1
  1. Home
  2. About BaRS
  3. Releases
  5. Implementation Guide Change Log

back

General Improvements Change Log


This page will list all general improvements for BaRS.

handshake
  - Indicates a change inspired by provider or supplier feedback.

1.4.0

Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
New application added Added new section for Application 6 (under pre-releases)
handshake
- Applications 3 moved to v1.0.0		 Applications 3 has been moved from the pre-releases section to the "BaRS Applications" section to reflect progression from beta to stable release
handshake
- Applications 4 moved to v1.0.0		 Applications 4 has been moved from the pre-releases section to the "BaRS Applications" section to reflect progression from beta to stable release
handshake
- New "Versioning Matrix" section added		 New section was added to "BaRS Applications" and "BaRS Pre-Releases" sections
Changes to BaRS Application 1,2 and 5 Minor corrections and updates across applications 1,2 and 5 with full details listed on the individual change logs.

Previous Releases

Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
Publication of Referral into UEC (Application 3) The first publication of documentation for Referral into UEC (Application 3) v1.0.0-beta to the guide
Publication of Referral into UEC for Validation (Application 4) Ther first publication of documentation for Referral into UEC for Validation (Application 4) v1.0.0-beta to the guide
Message Header guidance moved to Core All guidance for Message Header has been moved out of the individual applications to Standard Pattern for BaRS Operations
Cancellation guidance moved to Core All guidance for Cancellations has been moved out of the individual applications to Standard Pattern for BaRS Operations
Changes to BaRS Application 1 Referrenced failure scenarios in the Requirements-Referral/Booking that discuss these scenarios.
Grammer corrections throughout.
The removal of the NHSD-Requesting-Person = {FHIR Person (Base64 Encoded)} as mentioned in the API spec from the 'How Does it work' text.
Correction to the description of the use of Certificates and endpoints within Constraints.
Moved generic Message Header guidance to Standard Pattern for BaRS Operations.
Changes to BaRS Application 2 Referrenced failure scenarios in the Requirements-Referral/Booking that discuss these scenarios.
Grammer corrections throughout.
The removal of the NHSD-Requesting-Person = {FHIR Person (Base64 Encoded)} as mentioned in the API spec from the 'How Does it work' text.
Correction to the description of the use of Certificates and endpoints within Constraints.
Moved generic Message Header guidance to Standard Pattern for BaRS Operations.
Changes to BaRS Application 5 Grammer corrections throughout.
The removal of the NHSD-Requesting-Person = {FHIR Person (Base64 Encoded)} as mentioned in the API spec from the 'How Does it work' text.
Correction to the description of the use of Certificates and endpoints within Constraints.
Change to Authentication and Authorisation The removal of the NHSD-Requesting-Person = {FHIR Person (Base64 Encoded)} as mentioned in the API spec from the 'How Does it work' text.
Moved generic Message Header guidance to Standard Pattern for BaRS Operations.


Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
Application 5 v1.0.0-beta update Multiple changes made to Application 5 : BaRS-APP5
API Implentation Guidance Corrections To guidance and aesthetic changes
Build> Testing and Environments> Onboarding Correction to Receiver Firewall Amendments - IPs updated
Build> Testing and Environments> TKW Updated all Patient.Identifier sentinel values to reflect traceable patients on the INT Spine
Build> Testing and Environments> TKW Added new table with list of full patient details to allow full PDS traces on INT Spine
Build> Testing and Environments> TKW Updated UserTest DoS Service 2000071898 because the name has changed
Caching Requirements Moved from BaRS Applications (1 and 5) to BaRS Core


Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
New application added Added new section for Application 5


Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
Fixed issue with menu in Design/BaRS Core The "Failure Scenarios" subsection had an erroneous entry in left-hand navigation. This has been removed
Updated release notes structure This change was to accomodate historical releases by hiding them in an expander
Improved release notes navigation a "back" button was added to each of the release note detail sections
Updated FHIR assets section Simplified approach with a link out to the full Simplifier project
TKW - Updated context description Now includes detail of deployment on INT and rationale adopting this appraoch
TKW - Corrected sentinel values Some sentinel values for referencing UserTest DoS were out of date and did not return
TKW - Updated Response scenarios Added the sentinel values, under the Scenarios section, to elicit responses for interim and full Validation responses
TKW - Added table of DoS Service Ids Table of DoS Service Ids and how to obtain them to use as sentinel values for TKW Scenarios
TKW - Updated image Update image detailing how to use MAIT Portal to send requests to a Receiver solution
BARS-UEC-1 Application Corrected how elements ServiceRequest.supportInfo and CarePlan.supportingInfo must be populated
BARS-UEC-2 Application Corrected how elements ServiceRequest.supportInfo and CarePlan.supportingInfo must be populated
Fixed broken or incorrect links on "Home Page" Some links were linking to the wrong page
Help and Support - fixed broken external links Some external linkswere broken or still "boiler plate" links
Updated Change Log naming Change Log names have been changed to more in line with the rest of the change log names
Updated wording on releases Wording of guidance around support for new releases of Core was updated to provide more clarity


General Improvements

Improvement Rationale
Digital Onboarding Development of the SCAL process for BaRS to a digital, self service platform.
Endpoint Review process A Review process for changes to the Endpoint Catalogue to lower the chance of misconfiguration.
TKW Development and release of the TKW tool to support the developmment of BaRS V1.0.0
New BaRS Application Names New naming convention for BaRS Applications and the use cases that they are endorsed to support

Implementation Guide Changes

Change Description
First release of the Implementation Guide All aspects of the Implementation Guide have either been created or updated as part of the creation and release of v1.0.0 of the BaRS Standard
back to top