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Suppliers do not have to provide a Solution that delivers all Capabilities and are free to design and build Solutions that meet one or more of the Capabilities. By looking at the Capabilities, Suppliers can see where their product portfolio fits, either by making tweaks to existing Solutions where required or building new Solutions to expand the Capabilities that they provide for. For example, Supplier 'A' may build a Solution that delivers 'Document Management', 'Custom Workflows' and 'Patient Information Maintenance - GP' Capabilities, whereas Supplier 'B' may choose to build a Solution that delivers all the Citizen Capabilities.
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The Capabilities and Standards are structured in the model belowthe model on the GP IT Futures Capabilities and Standards page.
There are a set of Overarching Standards that are applicable to all supplier Solutions (e.g. Information Governance Standard)
There are Capabilities to describe the business needs at the highest level
There are Standards specific to certain Capabilities to mandate specialist functionality such as Capability specific data extracts or services (e.g. Primary Care Clinical Terminology Usage Report and eMED3 (Fit Notes))
There are Interoperability Standards which contain requirements applicable to all Solutions and some that are only applicable to certain Capabilities
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See Capability and Standards Structurepage for more detail on the structure and content of Capabilities and Standards.
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