NHS Booking and Referral Standard

Guide v1.8.1 | Core v1.1.5 | Package v1.34.0

Introduction

These pages provide guidance on how to implement the Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) and gain accreditation. This guide is designed for developers, business analysts, product owners and anyone involved at any stage of going live with BaRS.

For more information on the NHS England programme delivering the standard please see the booking and referral website.

You can use this guide to support your analysis and define the scope of your solution. However, as a developer, you may wish to start with the following:




The guide is divided into a number of sections:
  • About BaRS provides essential background and guiding principles along with prerequisites
  • BaRS Core provides a core set of functionality across version of Core
  • BaRS Application summaries provides links to implementation guides for released BaRS applications
  • Testing and Environments provides information about testing and environments
  • Assure describes guidance for the assurance process
  • Deploy provides the deployment toolkit
  • FHIR Assets, a link to the complete directory of FHIR assets
  • Help and support provides a link to support requests
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