NHS login

NHS login is designed for digital patient facing services that offer a health or social care related app or website. It is available to patients who are registered at a GP surgery in England only. You may ask about using NHS login if your service aligns with NHS strategy and delivers benefits to the health and social care system.

Your service may need NHS login if it:

• shows a user personal information about themselves, like their medical records
• replaces a form that needs to be physically signed by a user

User benefits

Benefits to your users include:

• a one-time simple sign-up process

• a single login to access multiple health and social care services
• peace of mind that their data is secure

Organisation benefits

Benefits to your organisation include:

• being sure your users are who they say they are
• not having to build and manage an identity platform
• choosing a level of user verification appropriate to your service

NHS login is continuously being developed and improved with weekly releases. We are working hard to enhance the current service and introduce new capabilities based on feedback and research. As such, you may experience processes that are still being refined and improved. We may need you to control your roll out volumes during this time to ensure that our service is meeting your needs.

You can follow our service improvements, see a roadmap of upcoming features and learn more about known service issues on our service updates and releases page.