GP Connect 1.3.0 released on 30th April 2021

Release overview

GP Connect Messaging specification moved from beta to published on 30th April 2021

The GP Connect Messaging 1.3.0-beta release is a patch release including:

• payload alignment with the Transfer of Care and Digital Medications programmes
  • the Task and DocumentReference resources have been dropped from the capability
  • the CareConnect-Composition base resource is being used as a wrapper for the consultation report PDF
  • the ITK-Payload-Bundle has been replaced with ITK-Document-Bundle resource
• the use-case to send the consultation report within federations has been removed, and has been replaced with a more generic Send Consultation Report use-case
• the receiver-side validation requirements from the error handling page have been removed
• Document Replacement page has been added to describe how messages should be re-sent/replaced if necessary
• requirement GPCM-SD-108 has been added to support mandatory population the meta element in profiles being utilised
• requirements to trigger when a consultation should be sent have been simplified
• requirements added to support confidential items being sent in PDF
• requirement added to support consultations being deleted at the sending practice
• the response messages example have been fixed
• any broken links have been addressed

Page-by-page breakdown of changes

• Send Document - payload structure
  • requirements GPCM-SD-001, GPCM-SD-002, GPCM-SD-003, GPCM-SD-004, GPCM-SD-005, GPCM-SD-006, GPCM-SD-007, GPCM-SD-008, GPCM-SD-009, GPCM-SD-010, GPCM-SD-011, GPCM-SD-012, GPCM-SD-013 and GPCM-SD-079 have been removed
  • these requirements have been replaced by GPCM-SD-103, GPCM-SD-104, GPCM-SD-105, GPCM-SD-106, GPCM-SD-107, GPCM-SD-109, GPCM-SD-110, GPCM-SD-111 and GPCM-SD-112
  • requirement GPCM-SD-108 has been added to make meta mandatory across all resources
• Document Replacement
  • new page added describing document replacement requirements GPCM-SD-126, GPCM-SD-127, GPCM-SD-128, GPCM-SD-129, GPCM-SD-130, GPCM-SD-131 and GPCM-SD-132
• Error handling
  • requirements GPCM-SD-067, GPCM-SD-068, GPCM-SD-069, GPCM-SD-070, GPCM-SD-071, GPCM-SD-072, and GPCM-SD-073 have been removed
• User stories
  • uplifted to remove references to “federations”
  • uplifted the requirements listed against each user story based on the removal/addition of requirements
  • GPC-SD11 and GPC-SD12 have been added to support confidential items and consultation deletion
• Payload requirements
  • requirements GPCM-SD-014, GPCM-SD-015, GPCM-SD-016, GPCM-SD-017, GPCM-SD-018, GPCM-SD-019, GPCM-SD-020, GPCM-SD-021, GPCM-SD-022, GPCM-SD-023, GPCM-SD-024, GPCM-SD-025, GPCM-SD-026, GPCM-SD-078, GPCM-SD-080, GPCM-SD-081, GPCM-SD-082, GPCM-SD-092, GPCM-SD-093 and GPCM-SD-027 have been removed
  • these requirements have been replaced by GPCM-SD-113, GPCM-SD-114, GPCM-SD-115, GPCM-SD-116, GPCM-SD-117, GPCM-SD-118, GPCM-SD-119, GPCM-SD-120, GPCM-SD-121, GPCM-SD-122, GPCM-SD-123, GPCM-SD-124 and GPCM-SD-125
• Triggering message creation
  • requirements GPCM-SD-085, GPCM-SD-097, GPCM-SD-098, GPCM-SD-099, GPCM-SD-100 and GPCM-SD-101 have been removed
  • requirement GPCM-SD-096 has been reworded to state that the consultation report must been sent within 3 hours of creation
  • GPCM-SD-135 has been added to support deleted consultations
• Message example
  • example uplifted to represent all the resource changes made to align the capability
• ITK3 header requirements
  • GPCM-SD-055 updated to - Timestamp MUST contain the date/time when the response was generated
• PDF layout
  • requirements GPCM-SD-133 and GPCM-SD-134 have been added to support confidential items being sent in the PDF, where supported by the local system
  • the description for Clinical notes has been updated
• Requirements list
  • Page added to list all requirements in the specification

Updates following provider review

These changes have now been superseded by FoT feedback updates listed in the section below

• PDF layout
  • the PDF layout has been uplifted to cover the following areas:
    • date format changed from dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm to DD-Mmm-YYYY hh:mm
    • additional information added for the populations of Surname, Forename and ` Current Tel No`
    • Registered Address renamed to Home/Registered Address
    • Date seen renamed to Date of consultation
    • Date consultation sent renamed to Date consultation letter sent
    • Current Tel updated to Current Tel No
    • Tel No. and Current Tel have been moved to the right of Home Address and Current Address
    • Date of consultation and Date of letter have been moved to the bottom of their section, below Place of consultation
    • Place of consultation updated to contain the full address
    • Surgery Tel No. updated to Consultation Surgery Tel No.
    • Surgery Email updated to Consultation Surgery Email
    • Blue colour used on template has been updated to NHS blue

Updates following First of Type review

• PDF layout
  • the PDF layout has been uplifted to cover the following areas:
    • Multiple field names have been updated and moved (please ensure all field names and locations match the PDF template)
    • Section header font sizes and background colours have been updated (please ensure all header sections match the PDF template)
    • Gender has been removed
    • Date consultation letter sent has been removed
    • Mobile No has been added
    • Consulting Organisation section title has been added to reduce wording of other fields associated with the consulting organisation
    • Branch Location has been added
    • Receiving GP Practice has been added
    • Summary Reason has been added to support a brief description of why the summary PDF has been sent
    • Follow-up Actions has been added to highlight any required follow-up actions being suggested by the sending organisation
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-136 added - all titles in Clinical Notes [notes] area are formatted as bold
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-137 added - all sections in Clinical Notes [notes] area have a carriage space between them
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-138 added - Clinical note section titles and Clinical Notes are tab separated
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-139 added - patient name must be in a larger font for quick easy reading
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-143 added - NHS colours must be utilised as per the PDF template
    • Requirement GPCM-SD-144 added - Summary Reason text
• Triggering message creation
  • Requirement GPCM-SD-140 added - only clinically relevant encounters are sent
  • Requirement GPCM-SD-141 added - configurable control is in place as a final check that the user wants to send the document

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