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Further information
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internal NHS Digital scoops Digital Leaders 100 award
NHS Digital scooped a top innovation award at the Digital Leaders 100 awards.
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internal National Record Locator for developers
The developer area shows you the code behind the Demonstrator (interactive guide) which will provide the details around the code construct of the demonstrator, code examples of how to connect to the NRL, and access to a reference implementation (stub) of the NRL API to allow quick and easy testing.
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internal National Record Locator for mental health trusts
A mental health professional may be responsible for creating a patient’s care plan. If this care plan can be used and seen by ambulance service staff it may help them if they are treating a patient in crisis.
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internal National Record Locator for ambulance services
National Record Locator (NRL) will be able to alert you to patients under your care who have certain records, for example a crisis care plan, created for them. This is done by your local health care system searching the NRL for pointers (or bookmarks) to patient records indicating that a specific type of record now exists for the patient.
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internal National Record Locator benefits
The National Record Locator (NRL) will bring many benefits to patients, organisations within the NHS and social care landscape as well as NHS frontline staff such as paramedics. This can be broken down in to three main groups.