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

• Initiation workshop with the supplier and NHS Digital stakeholders (Programme, SA - Functional, Non-Functional, Clinical Safety, IG and Service Management) - Activity

• Supplier Implementation Plan, Release Scope definition (RSD) document and an RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) submissions by the supplier. An initiation workshop with an appropriate agenda may negate the need for a RSD and Supplier Implementation Plan - Deliverable

• Supplier technical design documentation (if required) - Deliverable

• Test environment setup for testing in the path to live environment - Activity

• Test outputs (test scripts, test results, test messages etc) from the suppliers testing that they meet the PCRM requirements through their own testing and test results of any specific NHS Digital authored test(s) which we might mandate suppliers to execute – Deliverable.

• WebEx / face to face sessions for Suppliers to demonstrate areas which we deem as higher risk and/or areas which are more appropriately evidence through demos  - Activity

• Clinical Safety assurance and Clinical Safety Hazard logs and Clinical Safety Report – Deliverable and Activity

• Non Functional assurance (V&P, RFO) , test report (if applicable) - Deliverable and Activity

• Penetration testing and penetration testing report (if applicable) - Deliverable and Activity

• IG assurance (if applicable) – Activity

• Training Plan (if applicable) – Deliverable

• FOT (First Of Type) DevMAC award to the GP System supplier for deployment to FOT sites  - Award

• DVC - Deployment Verification Period in FOT sites - Activity

• FRA (Full Rollout Approval) DevMAC post successful FOT - Award