Digital prescriptions in the NHS App

From 30 January 2024, patients in England can use the NHS App to view all their prescription details, order repeat prescriptions and generate a barcode that can be shown to a pharmacy for collection without a paper prescription from their GP.

You can use our promotional materials to encourage your patients to use this new NHS App feature, along with the current order a repeat prescription service.

Learn more about digital prescriptions in the NHS App. Contact our team if you have any questions.

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Digital prescriptions in the NHS App

From 30 January 2024, patients in England can use the NHS App to view all their prescription details, order repeat prescriptions and generate a barcode that can be shown to a pharmacy for collection without a paper prescription from their GP.

You can use our promotional materials to encourage your patients to use this new NHS App feature, along with the current order a repeat prescription service.

Learn more about digital prescriptions in the NHS App. Contact our team if you have any questions.

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Digital prescriptions in the NHS App

From 30 January 2024, patients in England can use the NHS App to view all their prescription details, order repeat prescriptions and generate a barcode that can be shown to a pharmacy for collection without a paper prescription from their GP.

You can use our promotional materials to encourage your patients to use this new NHS App feature, along with the current order a repeat prescription service.

Learn more about digital prescriptions in the NHS App. Contact our team if you have any questions.

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Waiting list information in the NHS App 

From 30 January 2024, the NHS App will show patients in England an estimated waiting time for their hospital treatment at the NHS acute trust they’ve been referred to. 

You can access a communications package (FutureNHS account required) and learn more about how the service works. Contact our team if you have any further questions. 

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Waiting list information in the NHS App 

From 30 January 2024, the NHS App will show patients in England an estimated waiting time for their hospital treatment at the NHS acute trust they’ve been referred to. 

You can access a communications package (FutureNHS account required) and learn more about how the service works. Contact our team if you have any further questions. 

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REMINDER: how you unlock smartcards is changing on 31 January 2024

From 8:30pm on 31 January 2024 you will no longer be able to unlock smartcards in the old Care Identity Service application.

If you unlock smartcards, from 8:30 pm on 31 January 2024 you must use either:

You can read the full details in this announcement.

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Updates to VMP ‘<Drug Form>’ coded attribute in dm+d – Phase 2

We are updating NHS dm+d ‘<DRUG_FORM>’ coded attribute within the Virtual Medicinal Product concept class to contain more detail and more closely align with international standards.

The following drug form changes (Phase 2) are due to take place in the first quarter of 2024:

  • implant 
  • implantation suspension 
  • irrigation 
  • irrigation solution 
  • liquid 
  • powder 

Find out more about the planned schedule for these changes.

Confirmation of these changes will be provided in the Weekly release notes for dm+d.

We’ve published information for developers on how to run technical queries to identify VMP Drug Form changes from either the TRUD  or NHS England Terminology Server.

If you have any questions you can contact our UKMEDS team.

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