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Issue discovered relating to positions managed by ESR

Care Identity Management release 6.5 has fixed an issue we recently discovered where some position assignments managed by Electronic Staff Record (ESR) were being deleted from Care Identity user profiles.

This issue was introduced with release 6.2 on …

Share your views in the electronic patient record (EPR) usability survey

All acute, mental health, community and ambulance trusts are invited to participate in a new national EPR usability survey throughout this autumn.

Open to all staff who use them, the survey is designed to help the NHS measure and track how effectively…

Self-service improvements in Care Identity Management

The option to register an iPad on your own Care Identity profile has been available for a while. We’ve now added 3 more authenticator types that you can register on your own profile to authenticate in place of a smartcard. This was added in releas…

New Data Security Protection Toolkit (DSPT) platform available

View the new DSPT platform, which has changed to adopt the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Assessment Framework as its basis for cyber security and Information Governance assurance.

These changes affect NHS trusts and foundation trusts, integra…

Changes to reports in Care Identity Management

We have made some changes to how reports work and are displayed in Care Identity Management.

Smartcard statuses

Smartcard statuses are now more accurate. Previously if a smartcard’s status was shown as ‘Expired’, it could have been either expired or …

Help to improve the Digital Staff Passport service

We are looking for volunteers to take part in user research sessions. We would especially like to hear from you if you already have a Digital Staff Passport, but anyone with experience of moving between NHS organisations is welcome to take part. 

Health and Social Care Network: planned transition work

We want to inform you about planned works aimed at enhancing and improving our Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) services. 

From late August to mid-October 2024, we will transition the Protective Domain Name System (PDNS), Domain Na…

Identity and Access Management roadshow July 2024

Thank you to all who attended our November roadshow on 23 July 2024.

Here is a recording of the online event.

You can also download a copy of the slides from the roadshow.The event took take place on Tuesday 23 July from 11:00am to 12:00pm.

A…

Help us find participants for new prostate cancer research

NHS England ‘s Data for Research and Development programme has selected Prostate Progress, a Prostate Cancer Research project, as a pioneering driver project.

Supported by Stephen Fry, this collaboration provides researchers secure access to pseu…

Share your views on our MedTech consultation

NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care (NICE) have launched a joint consultation on proposals to introduce a new pathway for the appraisal, funding and commissioning of MedTech in the NHS.

The proposals aim to ensure patients can b…