Background

The objective of PCRM is to migrate primary care registration management functionality onto Spine in order to support the transformed primary care support services in England and enable the decommissioning of the National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS).
The first phase of this transformation introduces some changes to GP Links messaging and, in order to support Patient registration on PDS, will also introduce Postcode Access File (PAF) validation at source to ensure that address updates are consistently applied to Spine.

Outline Plan

Whilst PCRM doesn’t have an agreed go-live date at present (due in part to dependencies on other programmes like Cervical Screening), ensuring that these changes are implemented as early as possible will aid with a smooth transition and help improve data quality before the switch.

Summary of Change

GPSS to implement address integrity checking against PAF each time an address is amended on the GP System.

Full Specification

Implement requirement CCN005 in document PCRM Requirements_171219.

Assurance Approach

• Supplier Delivery Plan – to include timescales for development, test and deployment.

• Test Report / Evidence – Standard report with evidence from recordings, screen grabs or code to show changes have past the Suppliers own Testing.

Following approval of the above Test Report by NHSD the Supplier is then expected to follow the standard RfC route to implement these changes keeping the PCRM Project Manager informed as to when said RfC has been submitted.

The Programme would also ask that the changes be rolled out across the GPSS entire estate ASAP once the RfC is approved with the PM again being kept up to date.