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    Glossary of terms used by the GP Connect Messaging specification
    Accreditation
    The action or process used to ensure that a system provider meets necessary criteria to use the GP Connect services.
    Assurance
    A set of activities intended to provide confidence that a system works as described and in a safe and secure way.
    Direct Patient Care
    Defined by the Caldicott Review as a clinical, social or public health activity concerned with the prevention, investigation and treatment of illness and the alleviation of suffering of individuals. It includes supporting individuals' ability to function and improve their participation in life and society. It also includes the assurance of safe and high quality care and treatment through local audit, the management of untoward or adverse incidents, personal satisfaction including measurement of outcomes undertaken by one or more registered and regulated health or social care professionals and their team with whom the individual has a legitimate relationship for their care.
    End User Organisation (EUO)
    An organisation that uses a GP Connect service (or commissions the development of a new GP Connect service ) to access GP data from more than one clinical system provider to improve direct patient care. For example:
    • a GP practice that is part of a federation, club or hub and is sharing data with other practices in the group
    • a Commissioning Support Unit (CSU)
    • an acute or mental health trust that is receiving GP data from a group of practices in its area
    • an A&E or 111 service that is receiving data or booking appointments on behalf of a patient
    Federation
    A group of GP practices working together within their local area, in some sort of collective legal or organisational entity to deliver services such as out of hours care.
    First of Type (FoT)
    A scheme that facilitates the onboarding, testing, governance, assurance and live deployment stage of an end user organisation and its consuming system on its journey to consuming a GP Connect FHIR® API. FoT also represents the process by which the provider API fulfilment is proven to meet set criteria prior to gaining approval for wider rollout and piloting.
    GP principal clinical systems suppliers
    The name given to a group of suppliers that provide GPs with the core system available under the GPSoC contract. The current suppliers are:
    • EMIS Health
    • Microtest
    • TPP
    • Vision
    GPSoC contract
    GP Systems of Choice: a contractual framework to supply IT systems and services to GP practices and associated organisations in England. Suppliers gain approval to offer services through a centrally controlled contract.
    ITK3
    Interoperability Toolkit version 3: a FHIR® profile for a message which contains standard message metadata to facilitate standard message handling options.
    MESH
    Messaging Service for Health and Social Care: the NHS asynchronous messaging platform.
    ODS
    Organisational Data Service: NHS Digital team responsible for publishing organisation and practitioner codes, along with related national policies and standards. Also responsible for the maintenance of the organisation and person nodes of the Spine Directory Service.
    ODS code
    The identifier of an NHS organisation as defined and published by the NHS Organisation Data Service.
    Proxy server
    A server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers.
    Receiver
    A system which receives messages through MESH with an ITK3 FHIR message header.
    Sender
    A system which sends messages through MESH with an ITK3 FHIR message header.
    Spine
    Is a collection of national applications, services and directories which support the health and social care sector in the exchange of information in national and local IT systems.
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