Permitted Formats for GP2GP Attachments

The following attachment formats are allowed for GP2GP:

• docx
• text/plain
• text/html
• application/pdf
• application/xml
• text/xml
• text/rtf
• audio/basic
• audio/mpeg
• image/png
• image/gif
• image/jpeg
• image/tiff
• video/mpeg
• application/msword

If you are sending attachments in a GP2GP transfer, you need to make sure that any attachment documents are as compact as possible. In particular, Word processing documents have the potential to be very large, especially if they incorporate images or pictures in the header or background. For instance, a letter headed image may be 100 times greater than the same letter without an image.

As a general rule, you are strongly advised to consider removing any embedded images in any word processor generated letters that are attached to the core clinical records. If at all possible, attached WP documents should be text only.