NHS Booking and Referral Standard

Guide v1.10.0 | Core v1.3.1 | Package v1.37.0

Booking and Referral Standard Implementation Guide

This guidance takes you through how to implement the Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) and gain accreditation.

This guide is designed for anyone involved at any stage of going live with BaRS including developers, business analysts and product owners.

Before starting implementation, we recommend reading the following information:




The implementation guide is divided into 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
  • Report an Incident describes how to report a live service incident for suppliers and providers live with BaRS
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