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
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Record a vaccination
Helps staff record vaccinations, and automatically updates patient records
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NHS Health Check online
A patient-facing service inside the NHS App
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Select people for invitation
A system for campaign managers to run an awareness or invitation campaign, sending communications to eligible people
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Manage vaccinations in schools
Used by NHS staff to manage school vaccination sessions
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Manage your appointments
Used by vaccination staff to create and manage appointment availability
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Cervical screening management system
A tool for NHS staff running cervical screening clinics
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
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Preventative healthcare: designing for the service loop
Richard Pope, DPSP Strategic Advisor
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Making the NHS design system fit for the future
Tero Väänänen, Head of Design
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Design by cliché
Duncan Brown, Chief Technology Officer, Digital prevention services
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Stop following the rules, start designing the NHS like lives depend on it
Lauren Latham, Deputy Director, Primary Care and Home Testing Services
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Can you apply service design principles to fix a fragmented NHS?
Liz Lutgendorff, Digital Pathway Lead for breast screening
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