Entries by NHS Digital

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 lear...

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...

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:

self-service smartcard unlock, to unlock you...

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 ...

SNOMED clinical terminology users: Share your views on further proposed changes

Do you use the SNOMED CT Navigational concept hierarchy?

A briefing paper regarding the inactivation of the Navigational concept hierarchy can be found on Delen. 

There are a number of Navigational concepts in high use in the UK. In order to imp...

Drop-in sessions for unlockers using Care Identity Management

Care Identity Management (CIM) is replacing the Care Identity Service application. As part of this work, we are switching off certain features in the old service, and only making them available in the new service.

The first feature to be switched off ...

Additional information for digital leaders – December 2023

More than half of all NHS acute trusts in England now offer their patients the ability to view their hospital referrals and appointments on the NHS App. This makes it easier for patients to manage their healthcare from their mobile phone.  

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