NHSmail
Guide for community pharmacies using NHSmail (2018):
The purpose of this document is to provide Community Pharmacies with guidance on:
- how to register for NHSmail in order to qualify for the Community Pharmacy Contractual framework Quality Payments Scheme and the NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service (NUMSAS)
- how to get started using NHSmail
- what to do if you experience any issues with NHSmail.
Current process
NHSmail Local Administrator Guide
If a pharmacy is already set up with nhs.net shared email box, but need to get someone new a personal nhs.net email address to be added, then they should contact Sharon Hodges for the relevant application form.
Shared email accounts for each pharmacy are designed to allow access by multiple users accounts to ensure that Information Governance (IG) protocols are not breached. Sharing passwords is a clear breach of IG, so setting up individual user accounts which are accessed by multiple people by sharing login details and passwords is not permitted.
Users of the NHS Mail service should also bear in mind the restrictions on use for commercial advertising purposes, and accounts set up should not, be used to advertise job vacancies, offer commercial opportunities, or advertise the services of a pharmacy.
Any accounts that are found to have been set up inappropriately, or which are operating in contravention of the Acceptable User Policy (AUP) declaration will be suspended and removed by NHS Digital as and when they are identified.
NUMSAS
Please see this downloadable guide, focused on attaining NHS.NET email addresses for NUMSAS purposes.
FYI:
“Emails between “@gloucestershire.gov.uk” and “@nhs.net” are now fully secure and therefore you no longer need to use egress for emails between these two addresses.” This means it is OK to send patient identifiable information to a gloucestershire.gov.uk email address from an nhs.net email address (if is appropriate to share the information with the recipient).
Further information on NHSmail can be found at: psnc.org.uk/nhsmail
Further information on the Quality Payments Scheme can be found at: psnc.org.uk/quality
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Community pharmacy contractors that wish to take part in the Quality Payments Scheme must:
- have an NHSmail account for their pharmacy by the review points (28th April 2017 and 24th November 2017) at which they wish to make a Quality Payments Scheme claim; or
- for the purposes of the 28th April 2017 review point, have evidence that they have applied for an NHSmail account by 1st February 2017.
NHS England and NHS Digital have announced that contractors that wish to apply for an NHSmail account for their pharmacy, to meet the requirement in point 2 above, can do so by emailing the following information to nhspharmacy.registration@nhs.net (by 1st February 2017):
- Trading name of pharmacy;
- Owner’s name;
- Address, including postcode (for the premises the NHSmail address will apply to);
- Pharmacy ODS code (F code);
- Pharmacy telephone number; and
- Current pharmacy email address.
Contractors with multiple pharmacies may submit this information via one email, providing details for each pharmacy premises. For this reason, pharmacy teams working within multiple pharmacy groups may want to check with their head office before requesting an NHSmail address for their pharmacy.
Next steps
In January 2017, further details will be requested from contractors that have submitted a request for an NHSmail account, in order to allow the creation of a pharmacy shared NHSmail account and individual NHSmail accounts for staff, including regular locum staff, that will be needed to access the pharmacy’s shared NHSmail account.
Further information on NHSmail can be found at: psnc.org.uk/nhsmail
Further information on the Quality Payments Scheme can be found at: psnc.org.uk/quality
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