Buy your own terminology server

If your organisation needs to create, manage and share terminologies of your own, as well as consuming other terminologies, you may benefit from buying a terminology server which can link with NHS England's Terminology Server, and others, to share terminologies and classifications.

If you buy your own terminology server, then as well as having access to up-to-date, safe, reliable and high-quality NHS reference data, you will be able to:

• load local codes and map to national codes and/or other local/system codes, ensuring interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem - this will enable more effective, efficient and safer decision-making for the commissioning and provision of health and social care services
• create and maintain communities to facilitate collaboration whilst retaining controls for who can access and edit content
• be part of the federated ecosystem of terminology servers across the British Isles, enabling greater interoperability and sharing of terminologies and classifications, both upstream and downstream
• protect intellectual property of data within your own terminology server, control access to it, choose content based on your organisation’s needs, govern it and benefit from mapping local in-house codes to national and international coding language

We're managing a single-supplier framework that will give health and care organisations across the British Isles (United Kingdom, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man) an efficient route to procure an OntoServer instance.

An overarching contract is in place between NHS England and Dedalus, making up the core terms and conditions for the framework itself, including the capability for organisations to procure terminology servers and additional services. The mechanism for buying under the framework agreement is called a call-off. 

Once an order has been made and the details confirmed, the buying organisation and Dedalus will sign a call-off contract, which is the commercial arrangement between those two parties.

If your organisation is directly or indirectly involved in the delivery or improvement of publicly funded health and/or social care in the Uk, Ireland or the channel islands or Isle of Man, or is a contractor, subcontractor or service provider involved in providing goods or services to a health and care organisations, you can use the framework.

This includes:

• providers 
• commissioners
• population health managers
• suppliers in the health and care market
• researchers and analysts

More details on the definition of organisations that can make a call-off can be found in Appendix 2 of the Framework – Schedule 4 (Framework Management) document, available from the Dedalus team by submitting an enquiry form.

The basic process is:

1. Submit an enquiry form.
2. Dedalus will then contact you to discuss your needs.
3. You can then submit an order form to the Dedalus sales team.
4. Dedalus will assess it, complete the supplier response sections, sign it and return it.
5. Your organisation will counter-sign it and return it, creating a binding contract.

For any enquiries about buying your own terminology server, submit an enquiry form to the Dedalus fulfillment team.