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Find out about NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) planned maintenance and service availability.

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Proactive maintenance

Regarding the scheduled service-impacting work planned on the NHS e-Referral service (e-RS) to implement proactive maintenance.

Planned change timing

Friday 24 January 2025 4pm to Saturday 25 January 2025 4am

Planned change outage

Friday 24 January 2025 8:15pm to Saturday 25 January 2025 4am

Expected user impact

Users will be unable to access the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) for the duration of the change outage. Slot polls may be impacted and may not run overnight Friday/Saturday. Slot polls should run as scheduled overnight on Saturday/Sunday.

What is planned for this outage?

This outage is for proactive maintenance.


Maintenance Release 14.9

Regarding the scheduled service-impacting work planned on the NHS e-Referral service (e-RS) to implement Maintenance Release 14.9.

Change timing

Friday 17 January 2025 4pm to Friday 17 January 2025 11:53pm

Change outage

Friday 17 January 2025 8:15pm to Friday 17 January 2025 11:44pm

Outcome

Completed successfully. Slot polls were not affected overnight Friday/Saturday

What was planned for Release 14.9

Information is available on the NHS e-Referral Service Release Information page.


Contact details

If you have any questions, please e-mail: [email protected].

If you would like to receive the planned release communications for all nationally delivered services including e-RS, please contact your implementation and business change manager or email: [email protected].


Further information

internal Releases

Find out about NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) releases.

internal Business continuity guidance - NHS e-Referral Service

Read our guidance on system availability and business continuity, including background and purpose, maintaining access to e-RS local infrastructure, responding to loss of access to e-RS and invoking business continuity arrangements.

Last edited: 22 January 2025 11:10 am