The NHS Standard Contract Technical Guidance 2017-19 (updated for January 2018) is applicable to both the full length and the shorter-form version of the Contract. It offers broad advice about general contracting issues – including when the NHS Standard Contract should be used, contract signature, collaborative contracting, contract duration and extension, dispute resolution, and non-contract activity; and offers advice about both how key sections of the Contract should be completed and how the main contract management processes should be used in practice.