Booking and Referral Standard Implementation Guide
Welcome to the BaRS Implementation guide.
Here you will find a step-by-step guide to help you prepare for implementing BaRS and complete the assurance process.
Step 1: Analysis A group of pages to support you to understand what is required to implement BaRS successfully. These include principles and prerequisites, infrastructure, roles and responsibilities and content negotiation.
Step 2: BaRS Core Familiarise yourself with the core elements of BaRS including end-to-end workflow, security and authorisation, and error handling.
Step 3: BaRS use cases and applications Decide which use case and Application will meet your needs by exploring workflows and payloads.
Step 4: FHIR Assets Supporting information about the use of FHIR to implement the standard and gain access to BaRS FHIR assets including examples, bundles and CodeSystems.
Step 5: Testing and environments Understand how to connect to the BaRS environments; sandbox, integration and production. Find out how to access the testing tool (TKW).
Step 6: Gain Assurance Understand and complete the assurance process using the supplier conformance assessment list (SCAL). Follow steps to create an account with the Digital Onboarding Service.
Step 7: Deployment Toolkit Use the deployment toolkit to carry out the necessary checks to prove functionality and to fully test end-to-end capable environments ready to go live.
For an overview of the booking and referrals standard visit the NHSE website.