Digital prevention services portfolio

Building the NHS that helps people stay well, before they need the NHS that makes them better

Digital Prevention Services Portfolio (DPSP) is part of NHS England. We play a central part in the government's high-level strategy to build an NHS that's fit for the future:

analogue → digital
sickness → prevention
hospital → community

We build and maintain the essential digital infrastructure for NHS preventative healthcare. We build practical digital tools for patients and NHS staff; and provide specialist expertise in user research, service design, content, technology, and more.

Current activity

We’re currently focusing our efforts on:

  • digital services to support screening for breast cancer, bowel cancer and cervical cancer
  • digital services for organising, managing and recording vaccinations for COVID-19, flu, RSV and pertussis, with teams devoted to infant, maternity and school vaccinations
  • personalised prevention services, making it easy for people to understand their health risks and find the right services to stay well
  • digital services to support expanded home testing, backed up with clear advice in the NHS App, and with face‑to‑face care when it’s needed
  • digital prevention services for children, to give them the best start in life
  • new ideas and innovations across the digital prevention portfolio, to help plan our long term strategic direction

Services in active development

Record a vaccination

Helps staff record vaccinations, and automatically updates patient records

NHS Health Check online

A patient-facing service inside the NHS App

Select people for invitation

A system for campaign managers to run an awareness or invitation campaign, sending communications to eligible people

Manage vaccinations in schools

Used by NHS staff to manage school vaccination sessions

Manage your appointments

Used by vaccination staff to create and manage appointment availability

Cervical screening management system

A tool for NHS staff running cervical screening clinics

See a full list of digital prevention services

Notes

We encourage our teams to work in the open as much as possible. Openness is one of our 4 team values – sharing our work openly is an excellent way to build trust and invite constructive feedback.

Read our design histories for detailed notes on current work in progress

  1. Why lung cancer screening is a glimpse into the future of digital prevention

    Daniel Bower, Head of Product, Digital Screening

    25 August 2025

  2. An easier way to manage vaccinations in schools

    Helen Pitts, Clinical Strategy and Engagement Lead

    19 August 2025

  3. Designing for the NHS shift to digital and prevention

    Rachel Hope, Director of Digital Prevention Services, interviewed on the Problems Worth Solving podcast

    6 August 2025

  4. Why we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit

    Frankie Roberto, Mike Gallagher, Designers, NHS England

    21 July 2025

  5. Building the NHS’s digital backbone: The hidden tech that delivers vaccines

    Helena Powell, Deputy Director, Vaccination Digital Services

    15 July 2025

  6. The tangled undergrowth of complexity

    Liz Lutgendorff, Digital Pathway Lead for breast screening

    7 July 2025

  7. I will tell everyone that you are the people who will fix digital

    Vero Jermolina, Product discovery specialist

    18 June 2025

  8. Breaking siloes with a service catalogue

    Caroline Finucane, Design Lead in DPSP's Vaccination Digital Services team

    16 May 2025

  9. Not all users wear smart watches: on digital design and health inequalities

    Sarah Fisher, Deputy Director of Policy, Strategy and Engagement in DPSP's Digital Screening team

    23 April 2025

  10. Transforming digital services in breast screening

    Katie Sheridan, Communications Lead in our Digital Screening team

    14 April 2025

  11. Why you should embrace the 'outcomes over outputs' mindset'

    Veronika Jermolina, Digital Prevention Services team

    12 November 2024

  12. Products deliver outputs, services deliver outcomes

    Tero Väänänen, Head of Design

    21 September 2022

Contact us

If you have a service or digital transformation idea, or something you would like our support with, please email: england.dpsp-front-door@nhs.net