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NCRS roadmap

The NCRS roadmap outlines the high-level objectives and projects we are researching or planning to deliver in the coming months.

Design changes to the Patient tab

Design changes to the Patient tab

We would like your feedback on our proposed design change to the Patient tab.

If checking detailed patient demographics is an important part of your role, please sign up to take part in the research.


Strategy

The NCRS should be used:

  • where access to a summary of key patient information is required to support clinical decision making where full detailed patient records are not required
  • to compliment local shared records by giving access to key patient information across ICS boundaries
  • where a local shared care record is currently not available

The strategic intention for NCRS was set out in the Department for Health and Social Care policy via the Plan for digital health and care.

It is part of the work to build core national ‘connect’ capabilities, to enable authorised health and care professionals to have a holistic experience of the health and care system no matter where they happen to be in England.


Roadmap

The NCRS roadmap outlines the high-level objectives and projects we are researching or planning to deliver in the coming months.

Find out about existing services and functionality

This roadmap was last reviewed by the team on 12 June 2024.

April to June 2024
  • Improvements to the user interface when viewing patient demographics
  • Removal of ‘Return to SCRa’ button to support the planned decommissioning of the Summary Care Record application (SCRa)
  • Service specific printing improvements to SCRs and demographic screens
July to September 2024
  • Ongoing improvements following user feedback and research
  • General efficiency improvements for all users including enhancements to date input fields
October to December 2024
  • Ongoing improvements following user feedback/research 
  • GP Connect (pilot) - Structured medication and allergy data retrieved directly from GP systems (using existing patient consent models) will be available to a small number of pilot organisations

Change history

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

2024
  • Chargeable status functionality including integration with the Home Office
  • Improvements to patient search functionality
2023
  • Birth Notification Allocation (BNA) functionality
  • Auto redirect SCRa users to NCRS
  • NCRS Integration (1-Click replacement)
  • Search for patient using postcode 
  • FGM-IS functionality
  • Existing Reasonable Adjustments functionality enhanced
  • CP-IS “Silent read” functionality
  • COVID vaccinations data available in NCRS

Get involved

To discuss and provide input to our strategy and roadmap, contact us or complete the new interest form

Last edited: 13 June 2024 4:33 pm