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Find national digital services and programmes for health and social care in England.

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Add or correct the contact details on your NHS record service

Use this service to update or correct a missing or invalid mobile phone number or email address.

Direct care Patient information and demographics Optional Patients Service Live

Adoption Registration Service

Our service is currently not available. Following a review, information on the website will be updated. The service checks for a record of a Civil Death Registration in England, Wales and the Isle of Man on behalf of adoptees and birth relatives to establish if an adoptee or birth relative is recorded as having died.

Direct care Patient information and demographics Optional Patients Service In development

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Booking and Referral Standard

The Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) is an interoperability standard that enables digital patient journeys or operational processes for patients, healthcare workers and carers. It allows relevant information to be shared quickly, safely and in a format that is useful. It will eventually be available in all care settings.

Direct care Appointments, bookings, referrals Recommended Health and care workers Service Live

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Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS)

The Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) is an approvals, reporting and payments calculation system for GP practices.

Direct care GP data General practice Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

Care Identity Service

A service that allows access to patient data using smartcards and self-service smartcard unlock technology, single sign-on, and CIS2 Authentication, enabling registration authorities to manage and maintain access.

Direct care Staff and citizen identity Mandated Health and care workers Service Live
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Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) service

Helps health and social care staff to share information securely between local authorities and NHS organisations to better protect society's most vulnerable children.

Direct care Care records Maternity and child health General practice Secondary care Urgent and emergency care Mandated Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

Connecting Care Records programme

Connecting Care Records programme ensures authorised health and care professionals have ready, safe and secure access to the person-related information that they need to provide care, when they need it, where they need it, and how they need it.

Direct care Care records General practice Secondary care Health and care workers Transformation teams Service group Programme Active programme
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COVID Oximetry @home - digital and data services

COVID Oximetry @home was a service to monitor patients with coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms in their own home or care home.

Direct care Health and care workers Service

Cyber and data security

We protect our NHS and care organisations from cyber attacks and we monitor for new threats 24 hours a day. Our teams support organisations across the NHS with advice, assessments, and training.

Direct care Core infrastructure and productivity tools Mandated Health and care workers Service group

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Data Access Request Service (DARS)

The Data Access Request Service (DARS) can offer clinicians, researchers and commissioners the data required to help improve NHS services. We handle applications, process data and provide access to specific sets of data when requests are approved.

Direct care Research and innovation Optional Health and care workers Transformation teams Service Live

Digital Child Health

Our purpose is to support the delivery of the recommendations set out in the NHS England strategy Healthy Children: Transforming Child Health Information. Find out more about what we're doing.

Direct care Maternity and child health Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

Digital Firearms Marker

The Digital Firearms Marker is part of an improved process to help better monitor the physical and mental health of those who have a firearm licence or have applied for one.

Direct care GP data Health and care workers Service Live

Directory of Services (DoS)

The urgent and emergency care Directory of Services (DoS) is a database of NHS services in England. It works with NHS Pathways, the decision support system behind 111 and some 999 providers, to provide real-time information for patients about the right place to go.

Direct care Registers Urgent and emergency care Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

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Falsified Medicines Directive implementation toolkits

Guidance toolkits developed for healthcare providers to help prepare for the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive.

Direct care Medications and prescriptions Health and care workers Service
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Female Genital Mutilation - Information Sharing

Female Genital Mutilation Information Sharing (FGM-IS) is a national IT system for NHS staff that supports the early intervention and ongoing safeguarding of girls, under the age of 18, who have a family history of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Direct care Care records Maternity and child health Recommended Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

Frontline Digitisation

The Frontline Digitisation programme is supporting trusts to reach a core level of digitisation, as set out in our minimum digital foundations.

Direct care Care records Secondary care Optional Transformation teams Programme

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General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR)

Data powers the NHS - the collection of GP data could support vital health and care planning and research.

Direct care GP data General practice Mandated Health and care workers Programme Active programme

General Practice Extraction Service (GPES)

We collect information from GPs across the UK for use in planning, research and generating payments.

Direct care GP data General practice Mandated Health and care workers Service Live
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GP2GP

GP2GP allows healthcare workers to transfer patients' electronic health records securely, and quickly between their old and new practices when they change GPs.

Direct care GP registration General practice Mandated Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

GP Appointment Data

This programme delivers a range of developments to improve the quality of general practice appointment data (GPAD).

Direct care GP data General practice Recommended Health and care workers Service Live
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GP Connect

GP Connect allows authorised health and social care workers in a variety of care settings to access their patients' GP records.

Direct care GP data Interoperability General practice Mandated Health and care workers Patients Service Live

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Message Exchange for Social Care and Health

Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) provides the ability to share data directly between health and care organisations and is the nationally recognised mechanism for this method of data sharing.

Direct care Interoperability Recommended Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

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National Care Records Service

The National Care Records Service (NCRS) provides a quick, secure way for health and care workers to access national patient information to improve clinical decision making and healthcare outcomes and it is free to use.

Direct care Care records Patient information and demographics Recommended Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap
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National Data Opt-Out

The National Data Opt-Out (NDOO) is a service that allows patients to opt out of their confidential patient information being used for research and planning.

Direct care Care records Mandated Patients Service Live
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National Events Management Service (NEMS)

The National Events Management Service (NEMS) enables the sharing of specific health information about a patient in near real-time. Information is shared in the form of event messages, following a publish and subscribe model and using the NHS Spine.

Direct care Interoperability Mandated Health and care workers Service Live
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National Record Locator (NRL)

Find and access patient information shared by other health and social care organisations, to support the direct care of a patient.

Direct care Care records Mandated Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

NHS.UK

The NHS.UK website is a 'front door' for patients looking to take control of their health and wellbeing.

Direct care Patients Service Live
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NHS 111 online

NHS 111 online helps people with an urgent medical need to get assessed and directed to the right care.

Direct care Citizen health Mandated Recommended Patients Service

NHS App

The NHS App provides a simple and secure way for people to access a range of NHS services on their smartphone or tablet.

Direct care Citizen health Recommended Patients Service Live
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NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service

The NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service provides the development, maintenance and support of NHS Information Standards contained in the NHS Data Model and Dictionary. 

Direct care Interoperability Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

NHS e-Referral Service

The NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) is a digital platform used to refer patients to service providers.

Direct care Appointments, bookings, referrals General practice Mandated Health and care workers Patients Service Live
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NHS login

NHS login provides patients with a simple, secure and re-usable way to access multiple digital health and care services including the NHS App.

Direct care Staff and citizen identity Mandated Patients Service Live Has active roadmap

NHS Pathways

Find out about NHS Pathways, a clinical tool used for assessing, triaging and directing the public to urgent and emergency care services. Learn more about the about the benefits of the service, how it works and how to use it.

Direct care Citizen health Planning, oversight and service improvement Urgent and emergency care Mandated Health and care workers Service Live
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NHS Profile Manager

NHS Profile Manager is where pharmacies go to verify and update their service profile including opening times, contact details, facilities and service information. This ensures accurate information for patients and NHS professionals.

Direct care Registers General practice Pharmacy Dentistry Recommended Health and care workers Service Live
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NHS Service Finder

NHS Service Finder is a quick, easy and free-to-use product for health and social care professionals to find local NHS services via web or mobile.

Direct care Registers General practice Secondary care Pharmacy Dentistry Optional Health and care workers Service Live

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Organisation Data Service (ODS)

A national service for managing information about organisations across health and social care.

Direct care Registers Mandated Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap

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Patient Care Aggregator

The Patient Care Aggregator, also known as Wayfinder, gives patients a single view of their secondary care referrals and bookings via the NHS App.

Direct care Appointments, bookings, referrals Secondary care Mandated Patients Service Live Has active roadmap
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Personal Demographics Service

The Personal Demographics Service (PDS) is the national master database of all NHS patients in England, Wales and the Isle of Man - holding basic patient details such as name, address, date of birth, contact details, registered GP, nominated pharmacy and NHS number. PDS has a National Back Office for handling data quality.

Direct care GP registration Medications and prescriptions Patient information and demographics Mandated Health and care workers Patients Service Live

Personal Health Records adoption service

This service supports local digital transformation programmes in England, to develop or commission Personal Health Records (PHRs) and other citizen-facing health tools.

Direct care Citizen health Recommended Health and care workers Service Live
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Primary Care Registration Management

Primary Care Registration Management (PCRM) is a back-end service that enables patients to register with a GP practice.

Direct care Care records Maternity and child health Recommended Health and care workers Service Live

Proxy application service

The proxy application service lets patients apply for proxy access through the NHS App or NHS website.

Direct care Patient information and demographics General practice Optional Patients Service Live

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Reasonable Adjustment Flag

The Reasonable Adjustment Flag is a national record which indicates that reasonable adjustments are required for an individual and optionally includes details of their significant impairments and key adjustments that should be considered.

Direct care Patient information and demographics Mandated Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap
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Register with a GP surgery

The Register with a GP surgery service lets GP practices take online registrations quickly and easily. It is free for GP practices in England to use.

Direct care GP registration General practice Mandated Patients Service Live Has active roadmap

Repeat Caller Service

The Repeat Caller Service is a national service and a core part of the Integrated Urgent Care national architecture. It acts as an audit for the NHS 111 service, monitoring users who have been processed through the service 3 times or more in a 96 hour period.

Direct care Citizen health Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

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Closed programme

Shared Care Record programme

A Shared Care Record was a source of an individual’s past records, and care plans (current and future), connected across multiple health and care organisations accessible in one place.

Direct care Care records General practice Secondary care Mandated Transformation teams Programme
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Summary Care Record

Summary Care Record (SCR) is a national database that holds electronic records of important patient information such as current medication, allergies and details of any previous bad reactions to medicines, created from GP medical records. It can be seen and used by authorised staff in other areas of the health and care system involved in the patient's direct care.

Direct care Care records General practice Health and care workers Service Live

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Terminology and Classifications

The Terminology and Classifications delivery service develops and maintains products that enable health and care information to be recorded, shared and categorised.

Direct care Interoperability Recommended Health and care workers Service Live

The NHS England Terminology Server

A terminology solution to help healthcare IT systems speak the same language, and make mapping codes between organisations faster and easier.

Direct care Interoperability Recommended Health and care workers Service Live

Transfer of Care initiative

The Transfer of Care initiative aims to improve patient care by promoting and encouraging the use of professional and technical document standards. To ensure information is shared is consistent in all cases and across all care settings.

Direct care Appointments, bookings, referrals General practice Secondary care Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

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