Introduction

NHS 111 is an online call centre service for Patients with urgent medical concerns. 

This Standard is used for point-to-point messaging to share information between NHS 111 and other Health or Care Organisations, such as GP Practices, Community Pharmacies and ambulance services when a Patient interacts with NHS 111. 

For further information, see NHS 111 - API Catalogue.

Requirements

Suppliers of Solutions for Health or Care Organisations such as GP Practices and Community Pharmacies implement the Receiver requirements. To implement the 111 Report Receiver requirements, you can either use the NHS 111 Report Adaptor or directly implement the requirements without using the Adaptor. It is recommended that anyone who has not already implemented this Standard uses the NHS 111 Report Adaptor.

Note: Only 111 Providers implement the Sender requirements, which is outside the scope of this Standard.

Using the NHS 111 Report Adaptor

Without using NHS 111 Report Adaptor

Message Implementation

Dependent on your care setting/system the messages received differ. The table below shows which ITK messages you are required to implement based on the Capability you are delivering.

The adaptor covers all of these message types and can be implemented either with GP Practice or Community Pharmacy.

See NHS 111 - Implementations specification for further information.

Compliance, Assurance, Testing

Using NHS 111 Report Adaptor 

See the 111 section on Onboarding Overview of the Digital Care Services Interoperability Standards and Requirements.

Without using NHS 111 Report Adaptor 

NHS 111 is built upon ITK (Interoperability Toolkit), and the conformance can be found under ITK Conformance.

Documentation

Using NHS 111 Report Adaptor 

• API Catalogue - NHS 111 Report adaptor

• NHS 111 Domain Message Specification

• GP software developer guide (GP Suppliers only)

It is recommended GP Suppliers read the GP software developer guide in conjunction with the adaptor documentation.

Without Using NHS 111 Report Adaptor 

• API Catalogue - NHS 111 API Standard

• NHS 111 Domain Message Specification

• ITK Implementation messages

• ITK Toolkit

Dependencies

Using NHS 111 Report Adaptor

There are no Interoperability Standards within the Capabilities and Standards model that are dependents.

Without using NHS 111 Report Adaptor 

Creating a compliant implementation requires implementing the following dependent interface Standards:

• Interoperability Toolkit (ITK)

• Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

Roadmap