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Additional information for digital leaders – May 2023

Retirement of Personal Demographic Service - Spine Mini Service Provider API

On 31 January 2024 the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) - Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) API will be retired and no longer available for use. 

If you need contin...

Additional information for pharmacy and digital medicines professionals – May 2023

Use NHS Service Finder to find bank holiday opening hours

You can use NHS Service Finder to help your patients access the best care as opening hours change over the bank holidays.

NHS Service Finder allows health and care professionals to quickly loc...

Additional information for technology suppliers – April 2023

Retiring the Care Identity Service

We are retiring the Care Identity Service (CIS), which is used by health and care professionals in England to securely access national clinical systems.

It’s being replaced by the Care Identity Service 2 (CIS2). The...

Additional information for GP practice managers – April 2023

Support for switching on access to GP records

Changes to the 2023/24 GP Contract requires all GP practices to give their patients online access to new entries in their health record by 31 October 2023. 1 in 5 practices have done so already.

We offer ...

Additional information for digital leaders – April 2023

Try the National Care Records Service today

The National Care Records Service (NCRS) is replacing the Summary Care Record application (SCRa).

All SCRa users will need to switch to NCRS before 29 September 2023. The switchover to NCRS is quick an...

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 quarterly bulletin, which has sometimes meant information has arrived too late and buried in a long email, we have set up this section on our website for ess...

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...