Guidance on the NHS Standard Contract requirements on discharge summaries and clinic letters and on interoperability of clinical IT systems

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This guidance clarifies requirements set out in the NHS Standard Contract on provider organisations for Transfer of Care documentation and for the use of a common suite of Open APIs (application programming interfaces) for access to the clinical and administrative records where the contract refers to the need to meet ‘nationally published’ specifications.