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GP IT Futures Framework Expired

Lot 1 of the GP IT Futures framework expired on 31 March 2023. This means you can no longer carry out new procurements of solutions and services offered under that framework. However, if your ICB has a mixed estate (which means it uses multiple suppliers), practices may still choose to migrate to one of those existing suppliers.

Continuity contracts have been put in place to ensure that you continue to have access to your purchased solutions and services between 1 April 2023 and the go live date of the replacement, which is scheduled for early 2024.

You will still be able to use the Buying Catalogue to browse and procure solutions and services from the Digital First Online Consultation and Video Consultation (DFOCVC) framework.

Welcome to the GP IT Futures Capabilities and Standards site

Click on relevant Capability, Overarching Standard or Context Specific Standard below to view further information.  If you are new to this Wiki, please see Introduction to Capabilities and Standards, before proceeding.

To view a short description for a Capability and any associated Capability Specific Standards click 'More'.

To access videos to support Suppliers, click here.

To access guidance for Buyers, click here.

For an Interactive Capability and Standards Map showing all connections between the GP IT Futures Capabilities and Standards, click here.

Overarching Standards

Capabilities that can only be offered as full Capabilities

Capabilities that can either be offered as full or partial

Apply to all Capabilities

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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Ensures that Suppliers Solutions are supported by robust business continuity plans and disaster recovery measures.

Appointments Management - GP

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Supports the administration, scheduling, resourcing and viewing of Appointments and Appointment availability. Also supports submission of data to NHS Digital for monitoring, planning and research purposes.

Capability Specific Standards:

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Enables Citizens to manage their Appointments online. Supports the use of Appointment Slots that have been configured in Appointments Management - GP.

Clinical Decision Support

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Supports clinical decision-making to improve Patient safety at the point of care.

Remote Patient Monitoring

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Enables Patients to share health monitoring data with Health or Care Professionals, to support the remote delivery of care, and increase self-care outside of clinical settings.

Clinical Safety

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Supports the management of clinical risk and Patient safety.

Referral Management - GP

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Supports the creation of Referral information for Patients and sending referral requests to the e-Referrals Service (e-RS).

Prescription Ordering – Citizen

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Enables Patients to request for a Repeat medication recorded in Prescribing to be issued online.

Communicate with Practice - Citizen

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Supports secure and trusted electronic communications between Patients and the Healthcare Organisation. Integrates with Patient Information Maintenance - GP Solution.

Task Management

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Supports the management of Tasks relating to activities within a Health or Care Organisation.

Commercial

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This Standard underpins all commercial activity relating to the Catalogue. It does this by defining a number of rules governing the commercial relationship of relevant parties and by setting out standards of behaviour and principles of access to data and services charges. 

Resource Management

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Supports the management of Health or Care Organisation site information including management of Staff Members at Health or Care Organisations.

View Record - Citizen

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Enables Citizens to view content from their Electronic Patient Record (EPR) online. Integrates with Patient Information Maintenance - GP Solution.

Reporting

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Enables reporting and analysis using a range of data items to support clinical care and Health or Care Organisation management.

Custom Workflows

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Supports the creation of custom Workflows for the management of activities within the Health or Care Organisation.

Data Migration

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Supports the secure migration of Practice data between Solutions.

Patient Information Maintenance - GP

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Supports the registration of Patients and the maintenance of all Patient personal information including demographics. Supports the organisation and presentation of a comprehensive Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and enables other organisations to access this information.

Also supports configuring access to Citizen Services and the submission of data to NHS Digital for monitoring, research and payment purposes.

Capability Specific Standards:

Communication Management

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Supports the delivery of communications to recipients.

Caseload Management

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Supports the allocation of appropriate Health and Care Professionals to Patients/Service Users in need of support, ensuring balanced workloads and the efficient use of staff and other resources.

Medicines Optimisation

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Supports clinicians and pharmacists in reviewing a Patient's medication and requesting changes to medication to ensure the Patient is taking the best combination of medicines.

Data Standards

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Defines detailed technical standards for the storage, management and organisation of data and specifies standardised reference data, terminology and codes.

Prescribing

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Supports the effective and safe prescribing of medicinal products and appliances to Patients. Information relating to prescribable items will be available at the point of prescribing.

Digital Diagnostics

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Supports the recording of Requests for Investigations information for Patients. Investigation results can also be received, reviewed and stored against the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Cross-organisation Appointment Booking

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Enables Appointments for Patients/Service Users to be booked by Health or Care Professionals across organisational boundaries.

Personal Health Budget

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Enables a Patient/Service User to set up and manage a Personal Health Budget giving them more choice and control over the management of their identified healthcare and well-being needs.

Training

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Defines the training activities and collateral expected from Suppliers to support the buyers and users of their Solutions.

Consultation Management - GP

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Supports the standardised recording of Consultations and other General Practice activities. Also supports eMED3 (fit notes), the extraction of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and submission of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) for the Yellow Card scheme.

Capability Specific Standards:

Document Management

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Supports the secure management of all forms of unstructured electronic documents including those created by scanning paper documents. Also enables processing of documents and matching documents with Patients/Service Users.

Cross-organisation Custom Workflows

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Supports the creation of custom Workflows for the management of activities across multiple Health or Care Organisations.

Personal Health Record

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Enables Patients/Service Users to manage their Personal Health Record information relating to their health and care.

Hosting & Infrastructure

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Supports best practices for infrastructure and hosting of systems. For example, ensuring that systems are cost effective, secure and energy efficient.

GP Extracts Verification

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Supports Health or Care Professionals to ensure the accuracy of the data extracted from Electronic Patient Records (EPR) via the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) and sent to the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS), both operated by NHS Digital.

Cross-organisation Workforce Management

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Enables the creation of Service Schedules based on the requirements defined for services and on the resources available across a collection of Health or Care Organisations.

Population Health Management

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Supports Health or Care Professionals in accumulating and accessing health or care data from various sources, reporting on and creating Patients/Service User cohorts.

Information Governance

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Supports the controls needed to ensure that Special Category Data is kept confidential, is accurate and is available to authorised users when required.

Scanning

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Supports the conversion of paper documentation into digital format.

Cross-organisation Reporting

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Enables reporting and analysis using a range of data items to track performance, support clinical care and Health or Care Organisation management across organisational boundaries.

Productivity

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Supports Patients/Service Users and Health and Care Professionals by delivering improved efficiency or experience related outcomes.

Non-Functional Questions

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Enables the Authority to assess the risk associated with the Compliance Assessment of the Solution against appropriate Overarching Standards.

Domiciliary Care

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Enables Health or Care Professionals to manage Domiciliary Care Schedules and visits for Patients/Service Users.

Risk Stratification

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Supports the performing of Risk Stratification using pre-defined criteria that can be run against Patient data.

Testing

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Ensures that Suppliers' software delivery test processes are of sufficient quality and rigour.

Advice and Guidance (Professional to Professional)

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Enables Health or Care Professionals to request and receive support from other Health or Care Professionals.

Shared Care Plans

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Enables Health or Care Professionals to manage a single Care Plan for a Patient/Service User which is shared with other Health or Care Professionals.

Service Management

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Supports suppliers in the delivery and management of services that support and provide their Solutions.

Unified Care Record

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Provides a consolidated view to Health and Care Professionals of a Patient/Service User's complete and up-to-date records, sourced from various health and care settings.

Social Prescribing

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Enables Health and Care Professionals to record outcomes of wellness assessments and refer Patient/Service Users to one or more non-clinical interventions or services.


Care Homes

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Enables a record of the Resident’s health and care needs to be maintained and shared with parties who are involved in providing care, to support decision making and the effective planning and delivery of care.

Telecare

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Dispensing

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Supports the timely and effective dispensing of medicinal products and appliances to Patients, allowing Health or Care Professionals to dispense medication.

Context Specific Standards

Key

Apply to some Capabilities

Interoperability Standard

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Defines a comprehensive set of Standards, interfaces and protocols that Solutions and systems will use when interoperating.

Management Information (MI) Reporting

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Supports the submission of aggregated counts of information regarding Citizen Services, Appointments, Prescriptions and documents to NHS Digital.
Overarching Standards
Foundation Capabilities
Other Capabilities
New Capabilities
Other Standards