NHS Booking and Referral Standard

Guide v1.5.0 | Core v1.2.1 | Package v1.30.0

Processing Times

The following Processing time SLAs describe the need for APIs to respond to a request within an acceptable time frame. This time frame should be measured from when a request is received and does not include the transport time. These times are guide for average response time.

item Requirement.
1 90% of requests SHOULD take less than 2100ms to process. (Allowing for response time depending on measurement point). $process-message independently measured.
2 All requests MUST take less than 5000ms to process.
3 Any requests not processed within 5000ms should be timed out with "408 - REC_TIMEOUT - timeout"
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