NHS BaRS Integration

The NHS Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) is an interoperability standard and FHIR API, that enables digital patient journeys or operational processes for patients, healthcare workers and carers. It allows relevant information to be shared quickly, safely and in a format that is useful.

Streamlining Patient Care with NHS BaRS Integration

At 6B, we understand the critical role of interoperability in healthcare, where efficient and secure data sharing can directly impact patient outcomes.

Our NHS BaRS (Booking and Referral Standard) integration service is designed to enable seamless data exchange between healthcare systems, ensuring that patient information moves with them across different care providers. This integration helps healthcare professionals access accurate, up-to-date booking, referral, and clinical information without delays, redundancies, or paper-based processes, ultimately improving the continuity and quality of patient care.

What is NHS BaRS?

The NHS Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) is an interoperability standard and FHIR API that facilitates the secure exchange of booking and referral information across different NHS services. Often, a patient’s journey through the healthcare system involves multiple providers, and data needs to be shared across systems to support ongoing care. Without a standard format, these data exchanges can be inefficient and error-prone, requiring manual processes that increase the workload for healthcare staff.

BaRS enables healthcare providers to send and receive structured booking and referral information directly within their existing IT systems, eliminating the need for paper forms and redundant data entry. By adopting BaRS, NHS services can support a streamlined, consistent approach to data exchange, aligning with NHS England’s standards roadmap.

How BaRS Works

BaRS operates as an API-driven solution, using the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard to manage and route referral and booking information between systems. In practical terms, when a healthcare provider sends a booking or referral request, BaRS routes it through the FHIR API to the designated recipient based on a unique service identifier. This process allows providers to retrieve specific booking information, check patient referrals, confirm available slots, and receive responses directly within their systems.

With BaRS, healthcare professionals can:

Retrieve booking details or view bookings associated with a patient
Send and receive referral requests efficiently
Access real-time updates and confirmations for bookings
Identify service availability and manage appointment slots

This seamless exchange means patients move through their care journey more efficiently, with healthcare providers receiving all necessary information at each stage.

Why choose 6B for NHS BaRS integration support?

Integration specialists – 6B help organisations integrate digital healthcare products with NHS interfaces including NHS eRS, Spine, PDS, IM1 and a range of other interfaces.

Experienced developers – 6B has a wealth of experience in developing bespoke interfaces to suit an organisation’s objectives and products.

Security compliance – The security of your organisation’s integration is our foremost concern – we are ISO27001 certified.

Ongoing support – From the initial discussion to go live with your organisation’s NHS BaRS API integration, 6B’s developers are available for support at every stage during and after your integration.

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When it comes to healthcare, our skilled multi-disciplined team have successfully delivered projects for clients in the public and private sectors, ranging from complex system integrations to legacy system overhauls and everything in between.

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