Actions for Bowel Cancer Screening System (BCSS) users

The facility to login via Open Exeter will continue to be available during roll out, so if there are any problems with the CIS2/smartcard login, users will be able to revert to logging in via Open Exeter.

Check your smartcard setup to confirm that your laptop or PC has the latest CIS2 software installed.

BCSS users that do not already have an NHS smartcard will need to obtain one from their trusts local Registration Authority (RA).

To register the applicant for a national verified digital identity, a local RA will arrange a face-to-face meeting.

Once a BCSS user has a smartcard and has had the ‘Bowel Cancer Screening System’ position assigned to them by the local RA, the smartcard user’s details should be sent to the National Service Desk so that the user’s smartcard details can be added to their BCSS user profile.

Please raise a service log with the National Service desk to request the set-up of a smartcard user on BCSS [email protected]

The request should include the following information for each user:

• name of requesting organisation
• BCSS user’s full name
• BCSS user's email address
• BCSS user code
• smartcard universally unique identifier (UUID) - the long number printed on the front of the user’s smartcard

All users of BCSS need to ensure that their smartcard user profile has been updated with an email address. This can be done by the RA or the user via the Care Identity Service Portal.

To do this:

1. Log on to the NHS Spine Portal
2. Click launch Care Identity Service (Replaces UIM, Calendra and CMS).
3. Under the quick links menu click on my profile.
4. Under the contact details section click modify contact details.
5. Enter your email address followed by update contact.

There are 3 steps to enable CIS2 login:

1. Installation of NHS Credential Management.

2. Smartcard configuration (via the local RA).

3. BCSS UUID setup (via the helpdesk).

If you see an error when you first attempt to login it could be that your setup has not been completed.

i. This error means your smartcard configuration is not complete, and you should contact your local registration authority.

ii. This error means your smartcard ID has not been added to your BCSS user account, and you should contact the helpdesk to complete your registration

Each user should only have a single NHS Smartcard and multiple Access Positions can be assigned to the single smartcard.  

If you work across multiple trust sites, please contact the local RA for each organisation to assign the appropriate access position to your smartcard for access to BCSS at each individual location.  

To create a desktop shortcut to BCSS:

1. Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut

2. Put the BCSS CIS2 link in the location field in the popup and press next:.

3. Name the shortcut and press Finish:

4. A shortcut will appear on your desktop.

The CIS2 link needs to be added to your browser settings to allow access through to OBIEE, to avoid being reverted to the Report page after selecting the Dashboard option. 

1. Right click the Dashboard link and open in a new tab.

2. In the new tab, click on the “Pop-up blocked” option that appears and always allow pop-up and redirects from the BCSS URL. 

3. Close this tab and click on Dashboard, the link should now work (opening a new tab).