GP2GP - HL7 V3
Transfer patients' electronic health records, securely and quickly, between their old and new practices when they change GPs using the Health Level Seven Version 3 (HL7 V3) standard.
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Technical standards and specifications
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Continuity of care
- Care setting
- GP / Primary care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
- Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API Use this API to search for patients, retrieve patients by NHS number and update patients.
- Personal Demographics Service - HL7 V3 API Access patients' personal information, such as name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP and NHS number using a Health Level 7 Version 3 API.
- Personal Demographics Service - SMSP API Use this if you want to get personal demographics' data without an authenticated end user (no smartcard required). It is read-only and searches are limited to a single result.
- Spine Directory Service - LDAP API Use this to access data in the NHS Spine using Directory Service (SDS), a Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) API, which provides details of organisations, people and systems registered with the Spine.
- NHAIS GP Links API Use this to manage GP registrations and other patient data in National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS).
- Organisation Data Service - FHIR API Use this to search a national repository of NHS Organisation Reference Data using a FHIR interface.
- Organisation Data Service - ORD API Use this to search a national repository of NHS Organisation Reference Data using an Organisation Reference Data (ORD) interface.
- Message Exchange for Social Care and Health API Use this component of the Spine to deliver messages and files to registered recipients, in this case, to send audit information.
- Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API
Legal basis and endorsements
- Collaborating Organisations
No known endorsements.
Page last updated: 17 October 2023