The Technical Specifications (e.g., API definitions) that will be developed using this Standard will impact all locations where a health professional sends or receives patient medicines, allergies, and intolerances information by computer system, such as communications supporting prescribing, dispensing, or administering medicines, and communications between care locations. These locations include but are not limited to:
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Services |
Care Locations |
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Secondary Care |
Hospitals (acute, specialist, mental health), ambulance service |
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Primary Care |
GP Practices, GP out of hours, 111, dentists, ophthalmology, vaccination centres, Directory of Service (DoS) |
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Pharmacy |
Community pharmacy, distance selling (internet pharmacies), hospital inpatient pharmacy, hospital outpatient pharmacy, hospital outsourced pharmacy, Homecare, NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP), Transforming Access to Medicines (TRAMS) |
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Community Services |
District nursing, community midwives, health visitors, school nursing, physiotherapy, podiatry, occupational therapy, sexual health, optometrists, dental |
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Shared Care Records |
Local health and care records, integrated care systems, consolidated medication records, summary care record, patient apps |
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Health and Justice |
Prisons, police custody suites, juvenile detention centres, courts, immigration removal centres |
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Other |
Social care, mental health services, drug and alcohol services, nursing and residential care, private care delivering via NHS contracts, hospices |
The table above illustrates how this Standard will impact all suppliers of Information Technology/digital systems and applications that send or receive patient medicines and associated allergies and intolerances information to enable users to prescribe, transcribe, dispense, or administer medicines in the above locations. These suppliers should work with their customers to determine the necessary changes required to adhere to this Standard.