Podcast: Plans to transform the digital workforce

You can listen to a new podcast by NHS England’s digital workforce team to learn about their plan to narrow the skills gap for digital, data, technology and informatics roles. During it, senior digital leaders in the health and care system talk about what they think is fundamental to the success of the plan.

Case study: How to save hundreds of hours verifying student identities

The Apply for Care ID service enables health and care staff needing to access national clinical information systems and data to verify their identity remotely. Read our latest case study to find out how the service is supporting Registration Authorities, students and student support teams, as well as how your organisation can start using the service.

Help us improve: Integrating with our APIs

We are seeking feedback from organisations that have used our APIs or our API catalogue during 2022 to help us build on what we are doing well and make improvements where needed.  

If you can help, please complete our Developer Integration Survey. It takes about 5-10 minutes to complete and is open until 31 January. 

Event: NHS ConfedExpo 2023

This year’s NHS ConfedExpo will take place on 14 and 15 June at Manchester Central. The event will bring together health and care leaders and their teams from across the sector for 2 days of inspiring sessions, shared learning, and valuable networking opportunities.     

NHS, local authority and wider public sector staff are eligible for a free ticket. Register your interest in attending and follow @ConfedExpo on Twitter for the latest updates.

Event: National Care Records Service

You’re invited to attend an online session to learn about the new National Care Records Service (NCRS) and how to migrate or get access to it.  The NCRS is the improved successor to the Summary Care Record application (SCRa).  

Register for the 2 February session aimed at people working in pharmacy. 

Register for the 7 February session aimed at people who work in clinical, pharmacy, ambulance or care roles. 

For information: Improving our approach to communicating with you 

We are tweaking our approach to this bulletin in response to feedback. Instead of relying on a monthly bulletin, which has sometimes meant information has arrived too late and buried in a long email,  essential information for digital leaders will appear on this section of the website. 

When essential items are added to the website we will email you an alert. You will receive a short summary of these alerts every month instead of the bulletin 

If you have any feedback, please contact bulletins.nhsdigital@nhs.net. 

For information: NHS Digital merges with NHS England

In February 2023, NHS Digital will merge with NHS England. NHS England will assume responsibility for all activities previously undertaken by NHS Digital. 

NHS Digital’s systems and services will continue to operate as normal and contracts will automatically transfer to NHS England, with terms and conditions unchanged.  

Read more about the changes.