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Electronic Prescription Service technical roadmap

Future changes planned and past changes delivered for the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

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SCAL notice for suppliers

Please refer to the Supplier Conformance Assessment List (SCAL) as the definitive source of supplier information and guidance for EPS development. You will receive the SCAL when you begin the EPS onboarding process.

Strategy

The vision is for the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) to be available for use by all prescribers for all prescriptions in all care settings. 

Our main technical objectives and priorities are: 

  • developing functionality to track the status of a prescription through the NHS App 

  • increasing the adoption of EPS in secondary care settings 

 

Roadmap

The project roadmap outlines crucial project stages, objectives and timelines that we are researching or planning to deliver in coming months.

Its aim is to make it easier to understand and encourage teams to work together to improve patient care and service delivery.

This roadmap was last reviewed by the team on 23 January 2024.  

Q4 2023/24 (January to March)
  • EPS FHIR Prescribing API – Adding new prescription types to EPS FHIR API for prescribing (e.g. FP10MDA).
  • EPS FHIR Prescribing API – Supporting suppliers to upgrade prescription signing to SHA-256. 
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Adding new prescription types to EPS FHIR API for prescribing (e.g. FP10MDA). 
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Supporting suppliers to upgrade prescription signing to SHA-256. 
  • FHIR Prescriptions for Patients API - Supporting national roll out of the digital prescription in the NHS App. 
  • FHIR Prescriptions for Patients API - Making the API available for supplier onboarding. 
  • National Prescription Tracking Service for Patients – Requirements gathering and working with dispensing suppliers to design the solution.
  • Clinical Prescription Tracking – Gathering requirements for replacement of the internet facing clinical tracking API. 
Q1 2024 (April to June)
  • National Prescription Tracking Service for Patients – Developing and piloting the solution in the NHS App before making available to third party suppliers. 
  • Clinical Prescription Tracking – Building the new API and integrating the new internet facing API with the National Care Record Service to eventually replace the existing Prescription Tracker User Interface. 
  • Clinical Prescription Tracking – Modernising the service, making it internet facing and adhering to accessibility standards. 

Change history

In this section you can find project milestones that the service reached in previous years.

Q1 2023 (April to June)
  • EPS FHIR Prescribing API – Onboarding supplier support and guidance. 
  • EPS FHIR Prescribing API – Dentistry discovery work. 
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Dispensing API completed and assured for Apotec Pilot.
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Enabled FHIR API to verify SHA-256 prescriptions.
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Onboarding supplier support and guidance.
Q2 2023 (July to September)
  • EPS FHIR Prescribing API – Continued onboarding supplier support and guidance. 
  • EPS FHIR Dispensing API – Continued onboarding supplier support and guidance. 

Get involved

To discuss and provide input to our strategy and roadmap, contact us. 

Last edited: 24 January 2024 1:25 pm