Archive for month: December, 2024

We are reviewing our digital clinical safety standards (DCB 0129 and DCB 0160) to ensure they align with modern technology and user needs.

We’re inviting interested parties to register their interest in joining our pre-consultation focus groups for DCB 0129 in February 2025. The focus groups will inform the public consultation to be held later in 2025, with a separate process for DCB0160 to follow.

These standards guide IT manufacturers and NHS providers in risk assessment procedures to ensure the safe implementation of digital systems in healthcare.

Find more details on our review of clinical safety standards, including where you can access the expression of interest form.  

There are new dates for the phasing out of smartcard series 4, 5 and 6. Read the update here.

Certificate renewal on series 4, 5 and 6 smartcards (Gemplus, JCOP41 & JCOP 41) will no longer be available from 31 January 2025.

Removing older smartcards will allow us to remove the requirement for Gemalto middleware from the service. This middleware causes significant issues for organisations and removing it will simplify smartcard operations including issuance, certificate renewal and Registration Authority unlock.

It's planned that authentication with these smartcards will no longer be available after 30 April 2025 at the latest.

Identifying older cards

Using Care Identity Management

Registration Authority Managers, Agents and Advanced Agents can use the reports functionality in Care Identity Management to identify older smartcards in their organisation.

Read how to use reports to find older smartcards.

Using the Diagnostic Tool

You can also use the NHS England Diagnostic Tool to identify smartcard series.

Within the tool:

• select 'Card Reader Management'
• select the target smartcard reader where the smartcard is present

You'll then see the smartcard series number in the details shown.

More information

For full details of what we're doing and why, read this deprecation notice.

If plans change between now and the dates shown above we'll update this page and the deprecation page.

Contact us

If you have any questions, contact us at iamplatforms@nhs.net

Join us for an insightful lunch and learn session on 11 December, focusing on the Inpatients Care Coordination Solution (CCS), a key product available to NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) users. 

Event highlights: 

• introduction to Inpatient CCS - discover how this product streamlines elective care with data insights
• product benefits - learn how it improves theatre utilisation, supports planning, enhances data quality oversight and validates waiting lists
• live demo - see Inpatient CCS in action
• future developments - get a sneak peek into upcoming features
• question and answer session

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of Inpatient CCS and its benefits for your NHS organisation.

This event is open to NHS colleagues only. Register now to secure your spot.

Planned configuration changes on the NHS Email Relay Service will start in early December, and are expected to complete by the end of 2024.

We advise organisations with a *.NHS.uk domain to:

• review your business continuity plans in advance to avoid potential mail flow problems. These problems could arise if your organisation has previously hard coded IP addresses into applications instead of using host names
• read the Relay Configuration knowledge base article on the NHSmail support site. This article has been updated with the latest information on the primary connection and configuration settings

If you have any issues, please contact helpdesk@nhs.net.