Entries by NHS Digital

Using meningitis pictures and video on 111 online

Paul Pod, Interaction Designer in the NHS 111 online team, explains how they have improved information about meningitis symptoms by adding multimedia content to triage questions.

When people use NHS 111 online, they usually have an urgent medical prob...

What’s so great about the new National Care Records Service?

Locum pharmacist Faraaz Hussain describes his experience of using the new National Care Records Service.

I spend part of my week in a hospital setting and part as a locum in community pharmacies. The Summary Care Record application (SCRa) has always b...

Our new approach to migrating Spine to the cloud

Mark Burton, Lead Delivery Manager for the Spine Futures programme, explains why we’re accelerating the migration of Spine services into the cloud and why we need NHS organisations and healthcare suppliers to support the move.

In the decade since the ...

What does good look like for APIs?

Matthew Firth describes our best practice policies around APIs – and how the most important one is not about the technical aspects of the work.

For the past 3 years, we have been on a mission to make integration easier within the NHS for people b...

Clinical trials get faster

For International Clinical Trials Day, James Gray, NHS DigiTrials Service Delivery Manager, talks about the new Feasibility Self-Service tool that drastically cuts the time it takes researchers to find out if there are enough potential participants for...

An easy way to register with a GP surgery

Dr Shanker Vijay, GP and Digital First Lead for London, explains why he is championing the national ‘Register with a GP surgery’ service and talks about improvements to the service.

It should be quick and simple for a patient to register with a GP sur...

Why we’ve put sustainability into the NHS digital design principles

Tero Väänänen, Head of Design in NHS England’s Transformation directorate, explains the new NHS digital design principle focused on sustainability.

The NHS has set an ambitious goal of achieving ‘net zero‘ carbon emissions by 2040 for the emissions we...

Our API Developer Community is growing

Thasmim Ali, Product Owner of our API Developer Community, talks about how we’ve improved support for teams integrating with our products and services – and outlines our next steps.

The Developer Community  provides an open and transparent f...

Shaping the future of technology in general practice

Dan Wintercross explains the benefits of getting involved with the early adopter programme, which is giving GP practices the opportunity to shape the future of digital, data and technology in primary care.

We established the early adopter programme to...

What does the future NHS Spine look like?

Shan Rahulan and Mark Burton describe plans to modernise the Spine platform and invite IT professionals to help shape the future.

How do you connect 26,000 healthcare organisations and allow information to safely and securely flow across national and ...