For action: Update your NHS Public Key Infrastructure certificate

All healthcare technology suppliers that use an NHS Public Key Infrastructure certificate to connect to the NHS Spine will need to update their certificates before they expire in 2024 to maintain secure access.

Communication via the Spine will cease for any IT systems with invalid certificates, which could impact patient care.

New certificates will be available from early June. Find out what you need to do or contact our team if you have any questions or need further support.

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For information: Developer integration survey results

In January 2023 we sent a survey out to organisations involved in developing healthcare software to ask them for feedback on integrating with our APIs. This is the third time we’ve conducted the survey – the first time was January 2020 and the second was January 2021, so we now have a good view on how things have progressed over the last 3 years.

The good news is that we have improved – with the overall satisfaction score increasing from 2.3 to 3.8 out of 5 over that time. But we also know there is still more to do – especially around onboarding, which continues to be a key pain point for software developers.

Read the full survey results.

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