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

• 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
• a new service to improve the quality of data used to invite people for breast cancer screening (Cohort manager)
• a new dashboard that allows NHS staff to monitor the breast screening coverage in the Federated Data Platform (FDP)

Up next

• piloting a digital version of the lung cancer risk check for those most at risk of developing lung cancer
• adding self-testing as a new mode for cervical screening participants who have previously not attended clinic-based screening
• piloting a new service for staff working in breast screening, giving them a quicker, easier way to manage the screening process, and freeing them up to spend more time with participants

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 national Autumn Winter 2025 flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaign
• 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
• community pharmacy vaccination providers in London have a quicker, more accurate way to record flu, MMR and pneumococcal vaccinations using RAVS
• vaccination providers now have access to a service (Manage Your Appointment) that helps them manage millions of vaccination appointment slots across thousands of locations, as part of the Vaccinations National Booking Service
• three additional school-aged vaccination providers in the Midlands, Hertfordshire, and East of England are using digital services for planning and recording all school-age vaccinations: HPV, MenACWY, TD/IPV, flu vaccinations and MMR(V) catch ups in schools (Manage Vaccinations in Schools)
• helping clinicians and commissioners make more informed decisions by enabling vaccination data, including MMRV, to flow more easily between GP and other clinical systems

Up next

• supporting the national Spring 2026 vaccination campaign through a range of digital services, including the ability to book Covid appointments for 2 people; and helping GPs by providing our national invitations and booking services for seasonal vaccinations
• enabling 16-24 year olds to access catch up vaccinations at community pharmacies
• helping members of the public understand if they are eligible for, and how to get, RSV vaccinations, using the NHS App
• adding features to the NHS App to help the public understand what vaccinations they, or their dependents, have had, or need to get
• supporting the government’s ambition with digital services to help Health Visitors provide vaccinations to children
• processing of all adult, maternity and seasonal vaccination data e.g. shingles
• establishing automated flows for all school-age vaccination data between Manage Vaccinations In Schools service, NHS England and GPIT, to reduce risk of double vaccination, and allow better targeting of vaccination programmes

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 6 local authorities are now able to complete a free cardiovascular health check at home (NHS Health Check online)
• developing a service for people to find the right services to stay healthy
• understanding how an AI Health Coach could support people to succeed in achieving positive health changes through the Better Health apps

Up next

• continue scaling up NHS Health Check online to more local authorities and GP practices, and making the journey easier for people to complete
• piloting a service that helps people measure and understand their health, and find the right services to stay healthy
• testing the use of AI Health Coach with real users, to support setting goals and achieving positive health changes
• sending personalised communications using national infrastructure to increase uptake of mental health Talking Therapy services – starting with underserved groups in areas in West Yorkshire

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

• established HomeTest as a planned national capability, with a funded delivery team and a defined plan to prove the model through Alpha
• a successful discovery confirmed HIV as the first priority pathway, using national channels such as the NHS App to validate a repeatable end-to-end journey
• put in place the foundations for a scalable service model, including early pathway design, the integration approach into national digital channels, and the assurance route we will need to expand safely

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

• added hereditary tyrosinaemia (HT1) to newborn blood spot screening
• enabled the introduction of new chickenpox vaccinations as part of MMR-V, through further changes to CHIS (Child Health Information Services)

Up next

• enabling the introduction of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) to newborn blood spot screening
• running a pilot with health visitors and parents of newborns on how to best provide timely prompts for parents and carers, to help them with guidance on routine health appointments and key topics, such as weaning
• testing ways to share blood spot test results with parents using digital communication tools
• initial work on new features for the NHS App, enabling parents to access a new baby’s health record online, as announced in the 10 Year Plan for Health
• exploring ways to improve the manual processes involved in how CHIS ensure records move when families move between regions
• exploring ways to consolidate childhood vaccinations records across GP and CHIS records to enable better delivery of local vaccination routine campaigns and national catch-up campaigns
• exploring ways to help newborn screening staff better manage cohorts of babies
• improving newborn screening reporting and quality assurance tools

Help us make this roadmap more useful

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