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ContactPoint
Health Progress Update – 23 May 2008

Overview

This is a progress update with regard to ContactPoint implementation and the health sector. The intention is to provide frequent progress updates on health developments. There will be more news on this once arrangements for these updates have been finalised.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communications

Update
Supporting Communications within Health: we are working with the Department of Health and Connecting for Health to develop communication materials to go to all Trust Chief Executives setting out what ContactPoint is, and what Trusts are asked to do to support implementation. The draft letter and supporting documents are due to be with the Department of Health next week, and following discussion, review and release, we hope it will be cascaded to Trusts in June.
The IISaM Communications team is working with national Health Communications teams to support other communications for those working in health services.
Coordinating Stakeholder Engagement: Stakeholder engagement at a national level has been brought together with a coordinated IISaM Programme view. This will help to ensure that engagement with health is undertaken in a joined up and coherent fashion. An update on this will be provided for ICs in June.
Key points
  • Be aware of the work being undertaken to support communications with Trusts – you will be informed when any major health communications are issued.

Data – National and Local

Update
National Data: The NHS is one of the four National Data feeds for ContactPoint. Data from the Personal Demographic Service (PDS), managed by NHS Connecting for Health, will include basic demographic details for each child as well as the name of any GP practice that each child is registered with. Data are being provided in three phases prior to deployment (two phases have already occurred), and then updated daily once the PDS update service has gone live, which will be around the end of the year. In addition, there will be periodic refreshes of the complete data set.
Key Practitioner Involvements: The National ContactPoint Project Team is in the process of consulting with stakeholders to decide which are the key practitioner involvements in the health sector that should be fed into ContactPoint. Once this has been finalised this will inform the Local Data Strategy for health.
Local Data: The National ContactPoint Project Team is in the process of developing the short and long-term strategy for feeding local data from health systems into ContactPoint.
Key points
  • The strategy for uploading local health data onto ContactPoint is being developed. Guidance will be issued with the strategy to explain how health partners can feed their local data to ContactPoint.
  • For the time being, the Local Data Systems Analysis priorities for health should focus on data sources that hold involvements for universal services – midwives, health visitors and school nurses.

Practitioner Access

Update
ContactPoint Health Web Application: The ContactPoint Health Web Application will provide a simple web browser application, made available through the Spine Desktop portal, which will enable users to access ContactPoint via the Spine single sign-on NHS Smartcard process. This web browser application will provide search, view and update functionality .The Spine will interact with ContactPoint web services via an ‘Edge Service’. The Edge Service will undertake a number of functions, the main one being the translation of the NHS Number into ContactPoint Domain Specific Identifier in order to ensure that the NHS number does not leave the Health domain.
The Workforce Analysis 2 will help us to quantify potential ContactPoint users in health services who already have Smartcards. Arrangements for registration and training are currently being considered. This web browser application is planned to be available by the end of the year.
Key points
  • ContactPoint users from health will have the option of using the Health web application on the N3 Network in the Health domain. They will use their NHS Smartcard to access this application.
  • The exact date for the availability of the ContactPoint Health web application will be communicated once confirmed.
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