Entries by NHS Digital

NHS England launches tech trials to boost health and care connectivity

NHS England is supporting the trials to ensure health and care organisations make the most out of current and emerging wireless technology to deliver digital healthcare services.

Funding applications for proposals that aim to improve connectivity in t...

New materials to help you promote the NHS App to your patients

The revamped toolkit helps you to encourage your patients to use the NHS App, including materials to promote ordering repeat prescriptions.  

The toolkit contains posters and leaflets for your pharmacy, which can also be printed in...

Additional information for GP practice managers – August 2023

An updated paper patient registration form is available to all GP practices offering the Register with a GP surgery online service. The new form uses the same standardised question set as the online service and can be used instead of the GMS1 form.

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Additional information for digital leaders – August 2023

We are working with the British Computer Society to develop draft role profiles for several IT operations and technical job families. To help shape and define the profiles further, we are inviting feedback from colleagues working across these roles.

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Additional information for pharmacy and digital medicines professionals – July 2023

The Summary Care Record Application (SCRa) is closing on 29 September 2023. After this date you will need to use the National Care Record Service (NCRS) instead.

Switching to NCRS is straightforward. You will need to have NHS Credential Managemen...

Additional information for technology suppliers – July 2023

We have published new information about how we’re updating the NHS dm+d ‘<DRUG_FORM>’ coded attribute within the Virtual Medicinal Product concept class following feedback from stakeholders. The page now contains more detail about the changes, in...

Additional information for GP practice managers – July 2023

We are developing a new national service, Notify a patient, which sends a message to a patient to confirm that their registration with a new GP has been accepted.

Notify a patient is currently being piloted in some integrated care boards for use with ...

Additional information for digital leaders – July 2023

We have expanded the range of settings supported by the former GP IT Futures programme and developed a new model to reflect this wider remit.

The Digital Services for Integrated Care model will continue to help primary care settings choose and deploy ...

For action: Next steps to update your NHS Public Key Infrastructure certificate

Current NHS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) first-generation (G1) certificates are due to expire on 4 June 2024. Communication via the Spine will cease for any IT systems with invalid certificates, which could impact patient care.

Suppliers of healthc...

Change to Smartcard passcode requirements

We are changing the passcode requirements of NHS smartcards as part of a national update to the Care Identity Service for health and care staff. We are making this change as part of our preparation for rolling out a more advanced smartcard, the se...