NHS e-Referral Service презентация

them prepare for and participate appropriately in NHS
e-Referral Service Supplier Testing”

the opportunity to confirm no adverse effects on your system and provide assurances to your user base.
Allows NHS e-RS to accommodate and resolve any issues you may experience before Go Live.
Provides you with the opportunity to stay integrated and competitive in the English Healthcare IT market.

“Why do you need to be involved and what will you gain?”

and re-developed and should be the same from a functional perspective of Choose and Book compliant systems.
Launched vision at Commissioning Show June 2013
NHS e-RS to succeed Choose and Book and support paperless referrals and paperless NHS objectives
See www.hscic.gov.uk/ers for detail on the vision
Initial phase software development procurement completed, contract awarded to BJSS in July, completion in 2014
Approvals obtained and in progress to support rapid procurement of replacement services:
Infrastructure and Managed Hosting
The Appointment Line
Software support
Future Development
NHS e-RS remains a priority for the Secretary of State, NHS England, Beverley Bryant (NHS e-RS Programme SRO), HSCIC and DH.

and Book service:

Functionally equivalent replacement, with the addition of Any to Any and APIs
Removing the dependencies on Cerner’s Millennium product and Intellectual Property Rights
Minimal business change to avoid the need to re-train current users
Enables new and emerging requirements from the NHS e-RS Roadmap to be met in the future
The replacement approach aspires to be low risk, and minimises total cost of ownership
Develop a collaborative working relationship
Agile Delivery Approach
Go live November 2014

Major Releases

Major Release 1 will develop basic referral functionality

Major Release 2 will continue the referral workflow including integration

Major Release 3 will deliver the finishing touches ready for go-live

Testing windows are at the end of each major release including integration, volume and performance, user and supplier testing for Major Release 2 and 3.

well-known, proven, widely used and adequately supported
Implement loose-coupling and separation
Adopt open standards where possible
Re-use components where practical
Design and develop the solution for:
Multi-channel consumption
Security
Operational simplicity
Flexible scaling
Resilience
Adoption of NHS Data Standards as appropriate (e.g. NHS Number)

same from a functional perspective of Choose and Book compliant systems. However some of the enhancements are:

Poll Now feature allows the Service Definer to instigate a manual slot poll for a single service rather than waiting for the overnight slot polling. Safeguards protocols will be in place to limit frequency of requests.  

Improved user interface with familiar look and feel

Change to the “date of decision to refer” in the Request Appointment Confirmation message to the “RTT clock start date” is being considered.

HL7v3 messages support (MIM V2.3 and V3.1.09) with same contract properties
All messages to and from NHS e-RS sent via Spine 2 TMS, with same Party Key and ASID as Choose and Book
Same functional responses to messages
Same messaging vocabulary – e.g. cancellation reason codes.
Seamless transition URLs remain the same
Same IP addresses and DNS names for the live system
Live cut over from CAB to NHS e-RS will be seamless from an integrated system perspective.

developed as part of the new solution to provide access to NHS e-RS services and content through a well-defined and secure interface.

NHS e-RS will continue to support existing HL7 V3 messages
In Q4 2014 / Q1 2015 APIs will be exposing the user-driven functionality for both Provider and Referrer systems within the Professional Application of NHS e-RS using the N3 network.
The API will be using RESTful service interfaces influenced by the emerging HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard.
An Eco System to support supplier’s API development is targeted to be made available Q3 2014. This will be containing a host of support materials, information on the API architecture, development guides, code samples and an appropriately simplified assurance process.

If you are interested in API development and the Eco System’s availability please email the NHS e-RS programme. (Signup details are on the contact details slide)

2 & 3

Test Coverage

Preparation

Communications and reporting progress

Data

Environments

Data Migration

to test in during Major Releases 2 and 3.

The first window is in Major Release 2
13/06/14 to 03/07/14
This release package will have the majority of the existing Choose and Book functionality available.

The second window is in Major Release 3
11/08/14 to 29/08/14 followed by a fault fix window 01/09/14 to 26/09/14 for Severity 3 and lower defects
This will have the full existing Choose and Book functionality available.

usual testing
Major Release 2 has flexibility to review and assess defects identified during testing to minimise the need for code changes in end systems.
The same level of flexibility will not be available in Major Release 3, suppliers can’t assume defects will be assessed and accommodated in NHS e-RS.
Suppliers are therefore requested and it is recommended to participate in both test windows.
Defects identified in the test windows will be reviewed for inclusion in development activity ready for the next test window and go live.

coverage for full functionality in Major Release 2 and scale back testing for functionality not provided.

The exact functionality in scope for Major Release 2 will be advised on the 12/05/14.

It is intended that suppliers use the full regression pack for testing.

There will be a set of duplicated scripts that need preparing for data that is to be migrated. This needs to be determined and the data created prior to the test windows when the migration will take place.

the normal newsletters – ESP, EMT and via LSP channels
During the test phases one to one communications will take place with the designated points of contact
Defects will be reported via the SA Service desk
At the end of the supplier testing the supplier will report that they have completed the testing to a satisfactory level to HSCIC SA
Please schedule your testing with your usual point of contact.

be First point of support. Second Line will be SA Tech Ops.

Connectivity will require a change of the URL and Party Key from CAB to NHS e-RS environment.

SDS data (PAS end points, Organisation and Person details) will be synchronised with SDS.

Our intention is to migrate existing Service and Booking data from the legacy CAB environment to the new NHS e-RS equivalent where an equivalency exists.

Service Desk:
sa.servicedesk@hscic.gov.uk
01392 206 066

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For more information on NHS e-Referral Service see: www.hscic.gov.uk/ers

To sign up to the e-Referral Bulletin please visit: http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/ers/signup

For additional queries, please contact the NHS e-RS programme at: nhs.ers@hscic.gov.uk

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