Roadmap
| Roadmap Item | Standards and Capabilities | Status | Effective Date | Description | Change Type | Change Route | Incentives / Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity and Access Management Support for Vendor Agnostic Smartcards | Published |
| COVID-19 response has presented NHS Digital the opportunity to work with system providers to deprecate support for old middleware and introduce support for vendor agnostic Smartcards including PIV compliant Smartcards. | New | Managed Capacity - Other | Yes | |
| Citizen Access - Integration with NHS login | Citizen Access, Interoperability Standard, NHS login service, Appointments Management - Citizen, Communicate With Practice - Citizen, Patient Information Maintenance - GP, Prescription Ordering - Citizen, View Record - Citizen | Draft | All products with a Citizen/Patient facing capability to integrate with NHS Login | New | Managed Capacity - Minor/patch uplifts | No | |
| eMED3 - Data extraction to be expanded to include the profession of the issuer | Published |
| Data extraction to be expanded to include the issuer's profession | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| eMED3 - Widen access to the embedded eMED3 form | Published |
| Provide access to the embedded eMED3 form to Authorised Health or Care Professionals | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| e-Referral Service (e-RS) HTML Attachments | Published |
| Disallow HTML attachments from being uploaded to e-RS | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| Medical Examiner |
Draft |
| Changes to GP Connect: Access Record and Access Document to support Medical Examiner access to a patient’s GP Clinical record. | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| MMR Catch Up Campaign |
Draft |
| MMR targeted national call/recall campaign | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| Personal Demographics Service Record Change Event | Draft |
| Subscribing organisations will be notified when a patient’s demographic information has changed on the Personal demographics Service. | Uplift | Minor Change | No | |
| GP2GP Enhanced MI Specification | Draft |
| To define and consistently implement an uplifted GP2GP MI specification which will be used by NHSD to drive continuous improvement in the GP2GP service in line with the objectives of NHSE’s commission. | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | No | |
| ODS Codes - Part 2 | Data Standards | Published | DCB0090 change in format of code release. Update to the way in which ODS codes are released from csv to xml format. | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Legislation/Regulation | No | |
| Digital Medicines and Pharmacy FHIR Payload (Minor Illness) | Draft |
| Modification of GP Systems to be able to receive structured patient data from a community pharmacy following a minor illness consultation | New | Opportunity Item - Other opportunity | No | |
| GP Connect Access Structured Record – GP2GP | Draft |
| Delivery of the structured view to enable GP2GP record transfer using GP Connect | Uplift | Managed Capacity - Minor/Patch uplifts | N/A | |
| NHS Care Identity Service 2 - Standards based Authentication | Published |
| Move User Authentication to the new Care Identity Service (CIS) to allow the planned deprecation of CIS Authentication Service. | New | Managed Capacity – Other | No | |
| GP Connect Messaging: Send Document for Online Consultation (Phase 2) | Draft |
| Send Update Online Consultation to support a fully FHIR structured Online Consultation payload | Uplift | Opportunity Item | No | |
| GP Connect Messaging: Send Document for Online Consultation (Phase 1) | Draft |
| Extension of the GP Connect Messaging specification to enable the GP Record to be updated with structured / coded Online Consultation information. | Uplift | Opportunity Item | No | |
| GP Connect Messaging: Send Update rest of record (Phase 3) | Draft |
| Ingestion of additional FHIR resources over and above Online Consultation use case to support both the Send Document Generic use case and a fully FHIR structured Send Update payload containing all clinical areas of the patient record | Uplift | Opportunity Item | TBC | |
| Patient Switching Standard | Draft | TBC | The Patient Switching Standard utilises GP Connect to enable Patients records to move from one Practice to another | New | Managed Capacity - SRO Priority | TBC | |
| GP Connect Appointment Filtering |
Draft | TBC | Introducing service search parameters and filtering. | Uplift | Urgent Change | No | |
| Ethnicity Data Recording in Primary Care | Draft | TBC | Update Ethnicity Data held in GP IT systems | New | TBC | No | |
| GP Connect Write Back | Draft | TBC | Online Consultation tools interoperability with Clinical Systems | New | Horizon | TBC | |
| Digital Medicines and Pharmacy FHIR Payload - Part 2 | Patient Information Maintenance - GP | Draft | N/A | Introduction of structured FHIR messaging for Pharmacy Immunisation Administration and Pharmacy Emergency Medication Supply | Uplift | Opportunity Item | No |
| NHS login interface - Provisioning | Citizen Access, Interoperability Standard, NHS login Service, Appointments Management - Citizen, Communicate With Practice - Citizen, Patient Information Maintenance - GP, Prescription Ordering - Citizen, View Record - Citizen | Draft | N/A | The provisioning interface enables GP solutions to provision new Citizen users on the NHS login platform, thus enabling Citizens to use one consistent account for Patient sign-in and ID verification. | Replace | Opportunity Item | No |
| Structured Medications | Interoperability Standard, Medicines Optimisation, Prescribing | Draft | N/A | Addition of Dose Syntax functionality to support CCIO 7 priorities | New | Opportunity Item | No |
| Internet First Policy | Hosting & Infrastructure | Draft | TBC | Services are made available to end user over internet connections. | New | Managed Capacity - SRO Priority | No |
| Citizen Services Proxy Access | Appointments Management - Citizen, Citizen Access, Communicate With Practice - Citizen, Communication Management, Patient Information Maintenance - GP, Prescription Ordering - Citizen, Recording Consultations - GP, View Record - Citizen | Published | TBC | Proxy access requirements for Citizen Services to become 'MUST'. | Uplift | Managed Capacity - SRO Priority | No |
| BS EN 50600 Accreditation | Hosting & Infrastructure | Published | TBC | Formal accreditation against BS EN 50600 for Hosting and Infrastructure. | Uplift | Managed Capacity - SRO Priority | No |