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System-generated position assignments are all expiring on 31 December 2024
You can use the SYSPOS tool to find affected users in your organisation.
System-generated position assignments expiry reminder
These positions were due to expire 31 December 2024 and should all have been removed from users in your organisation.
Important announcement about the future of NHS Digital Staff Passport
As part of the broader NHS England integration with the Department of Health and Social Care, it has been decided to deprioritise the Digital Staff Passport programme.
Call for volunteers to pilot the NHS Digital Staff Passport
We're looking for volunteers to help test and improve the NHS Digital Staff Passport and reduce the need to repeat employment checks and statutory and mandatory training.
Share our new toolkit - "Powerful Moments, Powered by NHS Data"
30 April 2025: Use the new toolkit to showcase how using patient data is saving lives.
Action required by IT teams to support ongoing use of Care Identity Service
Important dates for IT teams as we update infrastructure and authentication.
REMINDER: changes to NHSE Path to Live environments
The TRAIN and DEV environments will both be decommissioned on 31 July 2025.
Moving from CIS1 Identity Agent to CIS2 Smartcard Connect
NHS CIS1 Identity Agent will no longer be supported from February 2027 and all organisations will need to use NHS CIS2 Smartcard Connect from that date.
Updated Guidance to CIS1 Deprecation
Internal NHS England (previously NHS Digital) services are to migrate to NHS CIS2 Authentication by the original date of September 2023. Suppliers have an additional year to migrate to NHS CIS2 Authentication, with a new retirement date of 30 September 2024.
Spine Directory Service (SDS) upgrade on Saturday 19 July 2025
We are carrying out an upgrade to the Spine DEX hosts on Saturday 19 July 2025 between 10:00am and 11:00am.