Multifactor authentication (MFA) will be enabled for all NHSmail user accounts on 30 June 2023. We are encouraging organisations to begin planning their local roll-out of MFA.
There is a MFA Adoption Toolkit to help guide you through the process. Guidance for both users and local administrators is also available.
If you need any further support that the MFA Adoption Toolkit or guidance does not cover, you can contact helpdesk@nhs.net.
A new dashboard that provides NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) summary statistics and performance metrics on referrals and advice and guidance requests is now available.
The e-RS provider dashboard, which will help NHS teams drive service improvements, gives users access to weekly data from e-RS. The initial beta release allows data to be cut by provider, specialty and clinic types, and allows benchmarking between provider organisations, regions and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
The 3-part beta phase will see up to 200 users given access to the dashboard so they can provide feedback and suggest improvements prior to its full release.
Access to the dashboard is open to clinicians, information analysts and other operational and administration staff. Request access to the dashboard.
Our NHS DigiTrials service is supporting recruitment into the Our Future Health, which is the largest-ever UK health research programme.
Millions of people from different backgrounds from all areas of the UK are being invited to participate and provide information about their health and lifestyles. This will create an incredibly detailed view of population health in the UK to support discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of diseases.
To date, more than 100,000 appointments have been booked by volunteer participants. Find out how we invite people to take part.
This year’s NHS ConfedExpo will take place on 14 and 15 June at Manchester Central. The event will bring together health and care leaders and their teams from across the sector for 2 days of inspiring sessions, shared learning, and valuable networking opportunities.
NHS, local authority and wider public sector staff are eligible for a free ticket. Book your pass and follow @ConfedExpo on Twitter for the latest updates.
Michael Chapman, Director of Research and Clinical Trials at NHS Digital, talks about our new Secure Data Environment and explains how it is making research into life-saving treatments easier and faster.
Reproducible analytical pipelines (RAP) help ensure all published statistics meet the highest standards of transparency and reproducibility. Sam Hollings and Alistair Bullward in our data science team share their insights on adopting RAP and give advice to those starting out.
Dr Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian, outlines new guidance to support better public benefit evaluations, aimed at both people who use data and those who are custodians of it.
Technical architect Darren Hickling describes our role in developing a platform to identify the highest risk COVID-19 patients so they could receive life-saving antiviral treatments.
Our statistical publications, dashboards and open datasets enable important insight across health and care, informing national and local decisions.
You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
You’re invited to attend a webinar on 8 March from 4 to 5pm to learn about the Register with a GP surgery service, including how it improves patient access, reduces administrative burden and the resources available for practices. The session will also include a demonstration and explain our future plans for the service.
Find out more and book your place. Registration closes on 7 March 2023.
To inform the development of a new data service, we are conducting some research on how patient data is used. We’d like to speak to those who work in, or have responsibility for, patient data in the health and care sector in England at a regional or local level.
The service has the potential to securely identify groups (cohorts) of people with shared characteristics from national health data, to help ensure the right people can be targeted and offered the services and/or treatment they need.
The research is confidential and being conducted by an independent research company. To register your interest to take part please complete this short form.
HL7 UK in association with INTEROpen and NHS England invites you to attend the FHIR UK Core Hackathon.
The event will help health tech suppliers to understand how to implement FHIR UK Core into their products, plan roadmaps that support the development of more interoperable clinical systems across the UK and provide an opportunity to hack some key clinical use cases using The FHIR UK Core.
This is a free event and it will run alongside Digital Rewired on 14 and 15 March 2023 at the London Business Design Centre.
We are looking for suppliers of clinical systems to be involved with the development of FHIR and UK CORE. Your participation will help to ensure that a standard way of handling interactions between different systems is used, improving interoperability locally and nationally as a result.
Please register your interest by emailing interoperabilityteam@nhs.net.
The original plan was to retire Care Identity Service authentication (aka ‘CIS1’) by September 2023, and for systems to have migrated to Care Identity Authentication (CIA, aka ‘CIS2 Authentication’).
Whilst progress has been made; it is clear that not all suppliers will complete the migration within this timeframe.
Therefore, we intend to change approach and:
Currently both CIS1 and CIA are supported to a Platinum Plus SLA – supported hours are 24x7x365 with 99.99% availability target (max of 4 mins downtime per month)
On 30 September 2024:
On 30 September 2025:
Benefits of migration to CIS2 CIA
Changes are being made to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) and SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension to reduce the potential for clinical errors across NHS clinical IT systems.
The changes will bring the content and availability of these terminologies into closer alignment whilst improving safety and efficiency, allowing staff to focus even more on care.
Find out more about these changes, including proposed delivery timescales and a video for NHS Trusts.
Read the rollout plan for the VMP ID changes.
If you have any queries, please contact nhsdigital.ukmeds@nhs.net
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