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
Apps: Features of higher quality health apps and how to give app feedback
Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS)
Booking, referrals and appointments
Bring your own device policies
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)
CPCF clinical services IT requirements & MYS APIs
CP ITG (Community Pharmacy IT Group)
Cybersecurity: Ten steps to help improve it (briefing)
Databases of pharmacies / services
Data security and information governance hub
Data Security and Protection (IG) Toolkit (DSPTK) hub
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 reimbursement solutions
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and SCR
EHRs: Planning pharmacy access for LHCRs/EHRs and other record systems (briefing)
EHRs/SCR/LHCR and system integration
Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)
EPS home (Electronic Prescription Service)
EPS: Contingency / business continuity
EPS essential checklists (one-pager briefings)
EPS checking total item numbers (one-pager briefing)
EPS studies including tips and lessons (briefings)
eRD (Electronic Repeat Dispensing)
Feedback/pilot registration IT (webform)
FMD (Falsified Medicines Directive)
Funding and reimbursement (IT)
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
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
Interface mechanism (IM1) NHS standards
Interoperability Toolkit (ITK)
ITK – Interoperability Toolkit
Keeping information up-to-date
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
NHS login (authentication for patients)
NHS.net Connect escalation route
NHS.net Connect practical considerations
NHS.net Connect management and registration
NHS.net Connect video conferencing options
NHS App and its EPS nomination feature
NHS IT / EPS status checker tool
NHS Parent Organisation Code (POC)
Notifications from pharmacy systems to GP practice systems
Notifications from GP practice systems to pharmacy systems (future)
Nomination Principles one-page factsheet
ODS codes and IT changes including change checklist
Online repeat prescription ordering
Opt-Out – see national data opt-out system for patients
Parent Organisation Code (POC)
PFS and other app offerings briefing
Patient Demographics Service (NHS PDS)
PDS – Patient Demographics Service
Pharmacy services IT requirements
Pilot registration and IT feedback (webform)
Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)
Reasonable Adjustment Flag (RAF) information (IT)
Real Time Exemption Checking (RTEC): roll-out, piloting, guidance, FAQs
Registration Authorities (RAs) – local Smartcard bodies, contact info
ShCRs: Planning pharmacy access for ShCRs (briefing)
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
Standard dose syntax / computable dose instructions
Standards and interoperability
SCR checklist for accessing it
SCR with Additional Information factsheet
System settings and IT updates
Systems (incl EPS and PMRs) and apps
Technology, infrastructure & workflows
Ten steps to improve data & cyber security (briefing)
Windows versions: updates and transition guidance (briefing)
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