Community pharmacy IT (a-z index)

Published on: 2nd February 2017 | Updated on: 5th November 2025

This A–Z index lists all Community Pharmacy England webpages and sub-sections from the Community Pharmacy IT Hub. Use it to quickly find digital topics relevant to your pharmacy.

Access control methods e.g. passwords

Antivirus

Apps

Apps: Features of higher quality health apps and how to give app feedback 

Apps update briefing

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Authentication

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS)

Booking, referrals and appointments

Briefings

Bring your own device policies

Business Continuity (IT)

Care Identity Service 1 (CIS1) online Smartcard admin software (one-pager briefing)

Care Identity Service 2 (CIS2, authentication)

Communications across healthcare (IT)

Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) information and its papers

Community Pharmacy IT Group (CP ITG) representatives

Community Pharmacy Digital email Group (CPDG)

Computable dose instructions (Standard dose syntax)

Connectivity: Getting the most from your connection (briefing)

Contingency (IT)

Consultations

CPCF clinical services IT requirements & MYS APIs

GP Connect: Access Record

GP Connect: Update Record

CP ITG (Community Pharmacy IT Group)

CP ITG representatives

CP ITG update

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: Ten steps to help improve it (briefing)

Databases of pharmacies / services 

Data backups

Data quality

Data security and information governance hub

Data Security and Protection (IG) Toolkit (DSPTK) hub

DSPTK webinar

Data security templates and resources

Data security top tips and case studies

Data security: Ten steps to improve it (briefing)

DSPTK FAQS factsheet (or webpage)

Digital capabilities / literacy

Digital Clinical Safety

Digital reimbursement solutions

dm+d NHS medicines database

Directory of Services (DoS)

DoS Profile Updater

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and SCR

EHRs: Planning pharmacy access for LHCRs/EHRs and other record systems (briefing)

EHR list

EHRs/SCR/LHCR and system integration

EHRs and ‘write access’

Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)

Email (IT)

EPS home (Electronic Prescription Service)

EPS: Dispensing and supply

EPS: Preparing/enhancing

EPS: Nomination

EPS: Contingency / business continuity

EPS Controlled Drugs (CDs)

EPS CDs FAQs

EPS submission

EPS and submission timing

EPS essential checklists (one-pager briefings)

EPS checking total item numbers (one-pager briefing)

EPS future and enhancements

EPS Phase 4

EPS studies including tips and lessons (briefings)

eRD (Electronic Repeat Dispensing)

Events (new/future)

Events (archived)

Faxes

Feedback/pilot registration IT (webform)

Feeding back about IT

FHIR standards

FMD (Falsified Medicines Directive)

FMD – a quick guide briefing

Funding and reimbursement (IT)

Future developments

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Genomics

Get involved

GP Connect (appointments/records NHS England standards)

Health and Social Care Network (HSCN)

HSCN: Getting the most from your connection (briefing)

IG – information governance and data security

Instant messaging

Interface mechanism (IM1) NHS standards

Interoperability Toolkit (ITK)

IT events

IT allowances

IT skills pathway

IT system suppliers

IT updates

ITK – Interoperability Toolkit

Keeping information up-to-date

Mobile device usage

Mobile messaging

National Booking Service (NBS)

National Care Records Service (NCRS)

National data opt-out system for patients 

National data opt-out system & the DSPTK question (briefing 2020)

National prescription tracking service for patients

National Record Locator (NRL)

NHS login (authentication for patients)

NHS.net Connect

NHS.net Connect escalation route

NHS.net Connect practical considerations

NHS.net Connect management and registration

NHS.net Connect video conferencing options

NHS account

NHS App

NHS App and its EPS nomination feature

NHS and IT

NHS IT / EPS status checker tool

NHS IT systems

NHS number

NHS Parent Organisation Code (POC)

NHS Profile Manager

NHS Service Finder

NHS Spine

NHS website

Notifications from pharmacy systems to GP practice systems

Notifications from GP practice systems to pharmacy systems (future)

Nomination

Non-nominated EPS

Nomination Principles one-page factsheet

ODS codes and IT changes including change checklist

Office software

Online repeat prescription ordering

Open standards

Organisations (IT) list

Opt-Out – see national data opt-out system for patients

Paperless

Parent Organisation Code (POC)

Patient Facing Services (PFS)

PFS and other app offerings briefing

Patient Demographics Service (NHS PDS)

PDS – Patient Demographics Service

Phase 4

Pharmacy services IT requirements

Phoneline options

Pilot registration and IT feedback (webform)

Policies (IT) list

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

Policy, the NHS and IT

Policy (IT) list

Reasonable Adjustment Flag (RAF) information (IT)

Remote consultations

Reporting issues

Routers

Real Time Exemption Checking (RTEC): roll-out, piloting, guidance, FAQs

Registration Authorities (RAs) – local Smartcard bodies, contact info

SCR – See Summary Care Record

NHS Service Finder

Shared Care Records (ShCR)

ShCRs: Planning pharmacy access for ShCRs (briefing)

Smartcards

Smartcard processes and tips factsheet

Smartcards: Using Care Identity Service (CIS) factsheet

Smartcard model overview factsheet

Smartcards for multi-site and SCR usage briefing

Smartcard Registration Authorities (RAs) – local Smartcard bodies, and contact info

Smartcard Role and Activity codes and how to update them briefing

Smartcard escalation process factsheet

Spine

Social media

Social media guide (briefing)

Social media webinar

Standard dose syntax / computable dose instructions

Standards and interoperability

SCR (Summary Care Record)

SCR checklist for accessing it

SCR Governance Person

SCR with Additional Information factsheet

SCR webinar

Surveys

System settings and IT updates 

System suppliers hub

Systems (incl EPS and PMRs) and apps

Technology, infrastructure & workflows

Ten steps to improve data & cyber security (briefing)

Tracker

Training and development (IT)

Updates

Wearables

Website management 

Whitelisting websites

WiFi

Windows versions: updates and transition guidance (briefing)

 

 

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