Welcome to Vision 3 Registration Links

Registration Links allows:

• England and Wales - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between GP practices and active Health Authorities using the HealthLink network.

• Scotland - Partners is the national project to introduce EDI between general practices and Health Board's Primary Care Departments, using X.400 message handling service.

The links permit the two-way exchanges of data covering Registration changes.

In this on-screen help, the phrase Registration Links implies those linked in both England & Wales, as well as the Partners link in Scotland, and those in Northern Ireland.

For the purposes of communication, Health Authorities are known as Trading partners (TP) and all Health Authority fields in this help are called TP, where formerly the title was either FHSA or HA. TP thus refers to all linked Health Authorities in England, Wales, and the HB in Scotland and CSA or NI in Northern Ireland. Where there is no link, the abbreviation HA, HB or CSA is still used.