National Event Management Service (NEMS) onboarding guide for digital child health

This guide provides guidance for a health and social care organisation wishing to publish and / or subscribe to the National Events Management Service (NEMS), containing detail from initial engagement, build and assurance through to implementation into live.

It includes:

• key supporting links
• reference material
• associated guides providing additional detail

Where an end user organisation is developing an in-house solution for deployment, they are both a Supplier and EUO (End User Organisation) and must complete all the required onboarding steps in both capacities.

Supplementary information for those onboarding a child health care setting to NEMS is provided at the end of this guide. This information is based on the lessons learned from the Digital Child Health (DCH) programme.

NHS Digital has been directed and commissioned to develop IT applications, IT infrastructure and IT systems necessary to operate and deliver the Digital Interoperability Platform (DIP).  The DIP underpins the delivery of a set of national integrated care capabilities and services to inform clinical decisions across all health and care settings and improve the experience of service users by enabling and enhancing the flow of patient information.

We provide several national technical capabilities intended to help industry and local health and social care providers enhance interoperability between IT systems and to flow information to support direct care purposes one of which is the National Event Management Service (NEMS).

Digital interoperability Platform patient information services bring together care information related to the patient in near real-time at the point of care and support wider sharing of records along care pathways and across organisational boundaries. In association, work is progressing to standardise integration through the development of application programming interface messages (APIs) and simplification of the operating model.

NHS Digital services which are enabled through the DIP include:

• GP Connect
• National Record Locator service (NRL)
• National Event Management Service (NEMS)
• Reasonable Adjustment Flag 
• National Care Records Service (NCRS)

The intended audience for this guidance includes, but not limited to:

• Health and social care organisations
• Health and social care IT system developers and suppliers
• Internal NHS Digital programmes and projects
• Other impacted Stakeholders who require access to Onboarding Process