NHS Account Messaging and App Push Notifications Service Direction

The purpose of the service is to enable patients to see communications from their GP via a secure messaging service in the NHS App. 

The service will give users of the app a way to receive messages from their GP in a more secure way where every sender is an authenticated and authorised health and care service. 

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and NHS Digital are working collaboratively with NHS England to put in place a new NHS App Direction under section 254 of the 2012 Act and Regulation 32 of the Regulations to replace the NHS Digital Establishment of Information Systems for NHS Services: NHS App Directions 2018. The New NHS App Direction will include a direction to NHS Digital to deliver the Service and will replace the need for this Direction.  Once the New NHS App Direction is in place this Direction will be revoked in writing by NHS England.