Roadmap

This roadmap is updated quarterly to make it more useful to readers. If you have comments or questions, please send them to england.dpsp-front-door@nhs.net.

Digital Screening

The Digital Screening team works on providing provide safe, efficient, high quality and nationally consistent screening services for adult participants. We’re driving a shift to home testing, and transforming clinic-based screening.

Recently completed

• piloted a digital version of the Lung Health Check to give those most at risk of developing lung cancer an alternative to the phone-based assessment
• first test of Run Breast Screening in England (Rubie) conducted with screening participants
• Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) launched a new helpdesk service to provide a more consistent and resilient experience
• rollout of a new service to help NHS staff manage cervical screening (Cervical Screening Management System)
• now sending millions of digital communications for bowel cancer and cervical screening

Up next

• adding self-testing as a new mode for cervical screening participants who have previously not attended clinic-based screening
• launching image reading and clinic management features to Run Breast Screening in England (Rubie) as part of our regular live tests
• testing online booking via the NHS app as part of increasing uptake in Cervical Screening

Vaccination Digital Services

The Vaccination Digital Services (VDS) team is here to protect the NHS and public, particularly those facing vaccine inequalities, by ensuring more people get vaccinated, more easily.

Recently completed

• supporting the national Spring 2026 COVID-19 vaccination campaign, including the ability for two people to make a ‘joint booking’, and a combined RSV and Covid vaccination appointment
• digital support in place for early-adopter pharmacies across parts of England, which means people can get RSV and pertussis vaccinations, and for the first time, infant-flu vaccinations for 2-3 year-olds
• vaccination providers, and for the first time GPs, now have access to a service (Manage Your Appointments) that helps them manage millions of vaccination appointment slots across thousands of locations, as part of the Vaccinations National Booking Service
• helping members of the public understand if they are eligible for, and how to get RSV vaccinations, using the NHS App
• helping clinicians and commissioners by processing all adult, maternity, school-aged, infant and seasonal vaccination data e.g. shingles
• helping clinicians in outbreak areas to quickly and easily record Meningitis B vaccinations using RAVS

Up next

• enabling more school immunisation teams (more than 2 in 3) to record vaccinations using Manage vaccinations in schools by the start of the 2026/27 academic school year
• adding features to the NHS App to help the public understand what vaccinations they, or their dependents, have had, or need to get
• adding all community pharmacies onto RAVS for autumn-winter 2026-27
• helping vaccination teams save time by integrating MYA patient appointments into RAVS
• running a pilot in RAVS for maternity vaccination teams to show a list of all their patients and calculate when vaccinations are due
• supporting even more people, e.g. school-aged children, to book a flu vaccination at a pharmacy if they miss their school vaccination

Personalised Prevention Services

The Personalised Prevention Services (PPS) team exists to make it easy for people to understand their health risks, and find the right services to stay well.

Recently completed

• residents of 11 local authorities are now able to complete a free cardiovascular health check at home (NHS Health Check online)
• the service for people to find the right services to stay healthy is now ready to test with real people in 2-3 local authorities
• proved that personalised communications using national infrastructure in 2 areas in West Yorkshire can increase uptake of mental health Talking Therapy services for underserved populations

Up next

• continue improving the NHS Health Check online so more people start and complete the service
• piloting a Vital5 online service that helps people measure and understand their health, and find the right services to stay healthy in partnership with South East London Integrated Care System
• testing the use of AI Health Coach with real users, to support setting goals and achieving positive health changes when using the Better Health apps
• developing a scalable infrastructure and model for cardiovascular risk calculation (QRISK3)

HomeTest

HomeTest will scale up home testing across a wider range of clinically important biomarkers, making it simpler for people to access the tests they need without unnecessary friction. HomeTest will bring together the commercial, clinical, and digital capabilities required to run safe, consistent services at national scale. Over time, this will support earlier diagnosis, improved condition management, and care that is genuinely closer to home, while maintaining clear clinical oversight and dependable onward pathways.

Recently completed

• successfully passed GDS Alpha assessment with approvals across all areas
• created formal partnerships with key HIV test kit suppliers and local authorities to prove service blueprint and create a go-live plan
• validated end to end system processes, defined financial and supply model and validated user experience designs for beta service

Up next

• enabling people to order HIV home tests through national channels in a controlled way, supported by clear onward pathways and clinical support arrangements as we move HomeTest into Alpha
• expanding the HomeTest service beyond a single pathway by starting Discovery for PSA and investigating UTI, with a view to move into Alpha delivery and set up a pipeline for wider biomarkers and tests
• making scaling practical by agreeing the commercial and onboarding model that allows multiple suppliers and multiple tests to be brought on at pace, without redoing assurance from scratch each time

Children’s Digital Health Services

Children’s Digital Health Services (CDHS) is a new area within DPSP, established during summer 2025. Its focus is on digital services that support families and care professionals to give children and young people the best start in life.

Recently completed

• defining ways to share newborn blood spot test results with parents using digital communication tools
• working with feedback from parents to refine features for My Children (the digital alternative to the Red Book) enabling parents to access a new baby’s public health record through the NHS App, as announced in the 10 Year Health Plan
• identifying inequalities experienced by different parent and carer groups who are using the physical Red Book to inform how we design My Children (digital alternative to the Red Book)

Up next

• piloting a service designed to send messages to parents of babies and infants signposting parents and carers to specific ‘jobs to do’ at key milestones in a child’s early life
• introducing Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) to newborn blood spot screening
• enabling the flow of data to the NHS App so that parents can access their new baby’s public health record online
• assessing ways to consolidate childhood vaccinations records, enabling better manual cleanup processes and delivery of local and national vaccination campaigns
• improving newborn screening reporting and quality assurance tools
• working with maternity teams to identify ways to improve the antenatal screening processes to better support everyone in pregnancy through their screening journey

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