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Roadmap for the National Care Records Service

This roadmap outlines the high-level objectives we are working on and what we are planning to deliver to the National Care Records Service (NCRS) in the next few months. 

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Roadmap

This roadmap was last reviewed by the team in August 2025.

April to June 2025
  • Improvements to patient search
  • Ongoing improvements based on user feedback and research
July to September 2025
  • Ongoing improvements based on user feedback and research 
  • Improve searching for an address by replacing Royal Mail's Postcode Address File with OS Places API
October to December 2025
  • Running a pilot of GP Connect in NCRS, which will mean that users can access documents and other information from GP systems (using existing patient consent models)
  • Add the ability to launch Shared Care Records from NCRS
  • Background improvements to infrastructure
January to March 2026
  • Expanding the pilot of GP Connect in NCRS to more users
  • Ongoing background improvements to infrastructure

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Last edited: 14 August 2025 3:55 pm