You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
To inform the development of a new data service, we are conducting some research on how patient data is used. We’d like to speak to those who work in, or have responsibility for, patient data in the health and care sector in England at a regional or local level.
The service has the potential to securely identify groups (cohorts) of people with shared characteristics from national health data, to help ensure the right people can be targeted and offered the services and/or treatment they need.
The research is confidential and being conducted by an independent research company. To register your interest to take part please complete this short form.
HL7 UK in association with INTEROpen and NHS England invites you to attend the FHIR UK Core Hackathon.
The event will help health tech suppliers to understand how to implement FHIR UK Core into their products, plan roadmaps that support the development of more interoperable clinical systems across the UK and provide an opportunity to hack some key clinical use cases using The FHIR UK Core.
This is a free event and it will run alongside Digital Rewired on 14 and 15 March 2023 at the London Business Design Centre.
We are looking for suppliers of clinical systems to be involved with the development of FHIR and UK CORE. Your participation will help to ensure that a standard way of handling interactions between different systems is used, improving interoperability locally and nationally as a result.
Please register your interest by emailing interoperabilityteam@nhs.net.
The original plan was to retire Care Identity Service authentication (aka ‘CIS1’) by September 2023, and for systems to have migrated to Care Identity Authentication (CIA, aka ‘CIS2 Authentication’).
Whilst progress has been made; it is clear that not all suppliers will complete the migration within this timeframe.
Therefore, we intend to change approach and:
Currently both CIS1 and CIA are supported to a Platinum Plus SLA - supported hours are 24x7x365 with 99.99% availability target (max of 4 mins downtime per month)
On 30 September 2024:
On 30 September 2025:
Benefits of migration to CIS2 CIA
Changes are being made to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) and SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension to reduce the potential for clinical errors across NHS clinical IT systems.
The changes will bring the content and availability of these terminologies into closer alignment whilst improving safety and efficiency, allowing staff to focus even more on care.
Find out more about these changes, including proposed delivery timescales and a video for NHS Trusts.
Read the rollout plan for the VMP ID changes.
If you have any queries, please contact nhsdigital.ukmeds@nhs.net
Changes are being made to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) and SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension to reduce the potential for clinical errors across NHS clinical IT systems. The changes to the underlying terminology (dm+d) will impact IT systems differently. Pharmacy teams should liaise with their IT system suppliers to determine how the changes will impact their systems.
Information for specific changes is available on the NHS Digital website, including proposed delivery timescales and a video for NHS Trusts.
For any queries, please contact nhsdigital.ukmeds@nhs.net.
Our Cloud Centre of Excellence team will be launching a new NHS Cloud Community on the FutureNHS platform in March, called the Cloud Community of Practice.
It’s aimed at NHS organisations who are interested in all aspects of cloud migration and will be an open forum for people to pose questions and present their challenges around cloud migration to peers.
To pre-register your interest in the Cloud Community please contact us at cloudcoe@nhs.net.
Recent improvements to the Register with a GP surgery online service include:
We are planning to add more features and integrate the service with the NHS App later this year. See our roadmap for more details.
The Register with a GP surgery service is now live with almost 600 practices and has shown to reduce the time it takes administrative staff to register new patients by up to 15 minutes per registration.
GP practices can begin using the service by self-enrolling or by contacting the dedicated support team. Further information can also be found on the resource hub.
The Electronic Prescription Service has transformed primary care prescribing in England. In her NHS Digital feature, Christine Hague looks back at 18 years of the service and asks what's next.
In his Design Matters blog, David Evans, content designer for the Register with a GP surgery service, says it’s difficult to get accurate answers about people’s smoking and alcohol consumption – and explains what the team is doing to improve the way people assess their intake.
Dan Wintercross explains the benefits of getting involved with the early adopter programme, which is giving GP practices the opportunity to shape the future of digital, data and technology in primary care. Read his Digital Transformation blog.
Listen to the second podcast in the series from the NHS England digital workforce team. A panel of clinical and digital leaders discuss their understanding of the digital workforce across heath and care, and look at why clinicians are fundamental to the success of digital transformation.
NHS England is holding a series of bi-monthly webinars to encourage people to get involved in how technology can meet the current and future needs of patients, staff and citizens - with the next session ‘Spine Futures’ due to take place on Thursday 23 February.
The existing NHS Spine joins together more than 28,000 healthcare IT systems and sends over 47 million messages a day. It allows information to be shared securely through national services such as the Electronic Prescription Service, Summary Care Record and the e-Referral Service.
Since April 2022, work has been underway to develop a new platform to modernise the current NHS Spine over the next two to three years. A core element of the programme has been to make use of modern technologies to create a cloud-based Spine of the future.
Cloud technology makes developing services easier and has the potential to reduce environmental impact.
In December last year, the Messaging Exchange for Health and Social Care (MESH) was successfully replaced with a cloud-based version. MESH connects over 35,000 health and care organisations, enabling them to share a wide variety of data securely and reliably and at scale, with around 70,000 messages sent a month.
The next Spine service set to migrate to cloud is the National Record Locator (NRL).
Stephen Koch, Executive Director for Platforms at NHS England, said: “We want the Spine of the future to make the best use of modern technologies and open standards to ensure it meets the needs of NHS users for many years to come.
“That's why we're actively engaging the health and care system with the development of the Spine Futures programme.
“Last year’s migration of the MESH service to the cloud was a massive achievement for the teams involved and a significant first step in our Spine Futures programme.
“We’re asking colleagues working in health and care to tell us what they need from the Spine of the future as we take the next steps of our journey to transform IT in health and social care.”
The webinar is aimed at anyone working in health and care who wants to hear about plans for the Spine of the future and share their needs for national services.
The session will focus on the latest developments including how NHS England is working with social care software providers, the latest developments from the National Record Locator (NRL), and the details of how the MESH system migrated to the cloud without impacting the service.
To find out more, anyone working in IT across health or care can register for the Spine Futures webinar on Thursday 23 February, from 3.30pm to 4.30pm.
You are trying to upload a photo on a user's Care Identity Profile in the Care Identity Service Application, and see the following error message:
It is likely that you are using Internet Explorer, or Edge in IE Compatibility mode. This is an unsupported browser for Care Identity Service.
The Care Identity Service application should be accessed using Edge or Chrome browsers. You must also have the latest version of Credential Management installed. Credential Management removes the need to have Java running on your machine, when using the NHS Care Identity suite of applications.
A list of software that we support on the Warranted Environment Specification.
To see if you already have Credential Management set up, use our checker tool.
The latest version of our software, including Credential Management and Identity Agent (needs HSCN connection).
If you have any problems with this workaround, or to report another issue, go to the NHS Digital Customer Portal or email: ssd.nationalservicedesk@nhs.net.