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

For other national resources, see National technology resources for Integrated Care Systems.

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Access and store digital patient documents

Store and retrieve digital copies of GP patients' historical Lloyd George paper records.

Care records General practice Recommended Health and care workers Service Live

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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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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
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Cohorting as a Service (CaaS)

Cohorting as a Service securely identifies groups of people with shared characteristics from national health data.

Population health and proactive care Mandated Health and care workers Service Live

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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

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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
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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 Health Application and Infrastructure Services

National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) is an IT platform used by the NHS in England, Wales, and Isle of Man to manage primary care registration and deliver cervical screening.

GP registration Core infrastructure and productivity tools General practice Optional Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap
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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
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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
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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
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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects health and social care staff and learners in England to selected, high quality, NHS-funded, knowledge and resources in one place, using a single search. 

Research and innovation Health and care workers 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
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NHSmail

NHSmail is the national secure collaboration service for health and social care in England. It includes a full suite of collaboration and productivity tools based on Microsoft Office 365, such as Outlook for email and calendar, Teams for instant messaging and video calls, and Office for documents and spreadsheets.

Core infrastructure and productivity tools Recommended Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap
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NHS Notify

NHS Notify allows NHS England organisations and services to send NHS App messages, emails, texts and letters to patients and the public more effectively.

Core infrastructure and productivity tools Recommended Health and care workers Patients Service Live Has active roadmap
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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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NHS Standards Directory

This directory signposts to standards for the recording and communicating of data across the NHS and adult social care services in England.

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Open Exeter

Open Exeter is an IT platform used by the NHS in England and Isle of Man to deliver cervical screening and to access the Bowel Cancer Screening Service (BCSS), Breast Screening Select (BS-Select) and Breast Screening Information System (BSIS).

Core infrastructure and productivity tools General practice Secondary care Optional Health and care workers Service Live Has active roadmap
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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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Orphaned Record Continuity

The Orphaned Record Continuity (ORC) service securely stores patients' Electronic Health Records (EHRs) when a GP practice closes and patients have not re-registered

Care records GP registration General practice Health and care workers Service Live

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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
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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

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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

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Spine

Spine supports the IT infrastructure for health and social care in England, Wales and Isle of Man, joining together over 44,000 healthcare IT systems in 26,000 organisations.

Core infrastructure and productivity tools Optional Health and care workers Service
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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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Suspended Record Continuity

The Suspended Record Continuity (SRC) service allows you to update and record when suspended patients register with a new GP practice.

Registers Mandated 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

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