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Care Act 2014 Notices to Social Care Interactions
This component covers message specifications for Assessment and Discharge Notices under the Care Act 2014 and the associated communications between health care and social care.
Assessment Notice Interactions
Note : Message acknowledgements and responses are requested by the document sender via handlingSpecifications within the ITK Distribution Envelope. For more detail on handlingSpecifications and the acknowledgement framework see the ITK Core pack (available from TRUD).
handlingSpecification key | handlingSpecification allowable values |
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urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:infackrequested | “true” or “false” |
urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:ackrequested | “true” |
urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:busresponserequested | “true” |

Assessment Notice (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:AssessmentNotice-v3-0)
Communicates a Assessment Notice to a recipient Social Care System Sending of Message. Sender: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Receiver: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Assessment Notice Accept Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:AssessmentNoticeAcceptResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v3-0)
Communicates an Assessment Notice Authenticated User Session Accept Response to the sender of the Assessment Notice Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Assessment Notice Reject Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:AssessmentNoticeRejectResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v3-0)
Communicates an Assessment Notice Authenticated User Session Reject Response to the sender of the Assessment Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Assessment Notice Accept Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:AssessmentNoticeAcceptResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v3-0)
Communicates an Assessment Notice Unattended Messaging Session Accept Response to the sender of the Assessment Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Assessment Notice Reject Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:AssessmentNoticeRejectResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v3-0)
Communicates an Assessment Notice Unattended Messaging Session Reject Response to the sender of the Assessment Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice (Complete Process) (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNotice(CompleteProcess)-v3-0)
Communicates a Notice to a recipient Social Care System. This interaction, cancels the complete delayed discharge process i.e. both the Assessment Notice and the Discharge Notice. Sender: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Receiver: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice Accept Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNoticeAcceptResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v1-0)
Communicates a Withdrawal Notice Authenticated User Session Accept Response to the sender of the Withdrawal Notice Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice Reject Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNoticeRejectResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v1-0)
Communicates a Withdrawal Notice Authenticated User Session Accept Response to the sender of the Withdrawal Notice Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice Accept Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNoticeAcceptResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v1-0)
Communicates a Withdrawal Notice Unattended Messaging Session Accept Response to the sender of the Withdrawal Notice Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice Reject Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNoticeRejectResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v1-0)
Communicates a Withdrawal Notice Unattended Messaging Session Accept Response to the sender of the Withdrawal Notice Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Discharge Notice Interactions
Note : Message acknowledgements and responses are requested by the document sender via handlingSpecifications within the ITK Distribution Envelope. For more detail on handlingSpecifications and the acknowledgement framework see the ITK Core pack (available from TRUD).
handlingSpecification key | handlingSpecification allowable values |
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urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:infackrequested | “true” or “false” |
urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:ackrequested | “true” |
urn:nhs-itk:ns:201005:busresponserequested | “true” |

Discharge Notice (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:DischargeNotice-v3-0)
Communicates a Discharge Notice to a recipient Social Care System. On Receipt of this interaction the recipient must send an Business Acknowledgment (Version 1.0) if requested by the sender. AND Send either a Discharge Notice Agreement (Version 3.0) OR Send a Discharge Notice Disgreement (Version 3.0) Sending of message. Sender: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Receiver: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Discharge Notice Accept Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:DischargeNoticeAcceptResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v3-0)
Communicates a Discharge Notice Authenticated User Session Accept Response to the sender of the Discharge Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Discharge Notice Reject Response Authenticated User Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:DischargeNoticeRejectResponseAuthenticatedUserSession-v3-0)
Communicates a Discharge Notice Authenticated User Session Reject Response to the sender of the Discharge Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Discharge Notice Accept Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:DischargeNoticeAcceptResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v3-0)
Communicates a Discharge Notice Unattended Messaging Session Accept Response to the sender of the Discharge Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Discharge Notice Reject Response Unattended Messaging Session (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:DischargeNoticeRejectResponseUnattendedMessagingSession-v3-0)
Communicates a Discharge Notice Unattended Messaging Session Reject Response to the sender of the Discharge Notice. Sender: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Receiver: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |
Withdrawal Notice (Discharge Notice Only) (urn:nhs-itk:interaction:WithdrawalNotice(DischargeNoticeOnly)-v3-0)
Communicates a Withdrawal Notice to a recipient Social Care System. The Withdrawal Notice interaction, cancels the Discharge Notice only. Sender: Hospital System (COMT_AR010020UK01) Receiver: Social Care System (COMT_AR010021UK01) Message:
Transmission Wrapper: ITK Distribution Envelope (Version 2.0) (distributionEnvelope-v2-0) Web Service Wrapper: ITKService (ITKService.wsdl) |