NHS England recently completed a review of Spine Core and CIS Path to Live environment provision. This is to better focus environment support where demand from the supplier base was greatest, and where it best supports quality health and social care IT delivery.
The outcome of this analysis clearly showed that the Integration (INT) and Deployment (DEP) environments are widely used, whereas Training (TRAIN) and Development (DEV) environments are under-utilised and the initial use cases justifying them no longer apply or can be supported in other ways.
Therefore, INT and DEP environments will continue to be supported as currently, whilst TRAIN and DEV will move to a minimal support model before being decommissioned on 31 July 2025.
TRAIN environment
Since 1 September 2024 the service desk stopped creating new users, endpoints or certificates. They also stopped processing certificate requests for existing endpoints. Incidents continue to be fixed as normal.
Spine Core and CIS are no longer kept in line with Live builds.
DEV environment
Since 1 September 2024 the service desk stopped creating new users, endpoints or certificates, except where a customer required them for e-RS-related work. Incidents continue to be fixed as normal.
Spine Core and CIS are no longer kept in line with Live builds.
To confirm, the TRAIN and DEV environments will both be decommissioned on 31 July 2025.
In order to ensure joined up delivery, consistent standards, and enable efficient support into the future, it is requested that all new customers and existing customers test in the INT environment. This environment will be kept in line with Live and any new functionality will be deployed here also as per Live.
If you have any queries or concerns in relation to the above notice then please email [email protected]
