News - week commencing 4 March 2024
Current and future non-production environment plans and other relevant topics to help make connecting to NHS national systems easier.
Current plans
ERS ALPHA environment moving to use Spine integration environment
All current e-RS API testing is done in the ERS INT environment, connected to the Spine Integration environment. By exception, NHS England may previously have invited some partners to perform pre-release testing of e-RS APIs in the eRS ALPHA environment. However, the ERS ALPHA environment is connected to the Spine Development environment. This means invited partners needed to onboard to two different Spine environments. To alleviate this problem, NHS England are transferring the ERS ALPHA environment from Spine Development to Spine Integration. This will make testing easier and allow more partners to use the facility when required. No date has been set for this migration so please keep viewing the newsletter for further updates. No data will be transferred as part of migration. It is important to note that the ERS ALPHA environment is not a standard test environment and should not be used by partners unless invited to do so by NHS England.
Key contact for any questions
Any queries should be addressed to [email protected]
Shutdown ERSDEP and ERSDEV at Weekends and Overnight UPDATED
It had been proposed that these environments will be shutdown between 20:00 and 06:00 on weekdays and all day at the weekends as a cost saving measure. Following feedback from customer ERSDEP wioll remain a 24/7 service. Only ERS DEV will be shutdown Out of hours..
If you have feedback on this proposal, please contact the key contact email below.
Key contact for any questions
If you have any issues concerns or issues, please report as normal to the ITOC Support Desk: [email protected]
Changes to the IP addresses of MESH UI and MOLES
The MESH UI web application moved to a new platform on 26 September 2024 and commenced a ‘dual running phase’ this is ending on the 18th Jan-24.
MOLES web application is moving to a new platform on 18 January 2024.
As a result, the services will be accessible via new URLs at a new set of fixed IP addresses. The current URLs will be redirected to the new URLs, so any existing bookmarks or links will continue to work.
You may need to make changes to your network configurations and /or firewall rules to allow your users to access the new IP address . Please allow traffic to and from the IP address below on port 443
Live/Production
| ui.mesh.national.nhs.uk | 3.11.224.198 |
| 18.168.98.129 | |
| 13.42.250.225 | |
| moles.mesh.national.nhs.uk | 35.177.125.230 |
| 52.56.228.150 | |
| 52.56.230.247 |
Path to Live Integration
| ui.int.ptl.mesh.national.nhs.uk | 35.179.32.169 |
| 3.8.65.155 | |
| 18.168.249.149 | |
| moles.int.ptl.mesh.national.nhs.uk | 18.134.40.57 |
| 18.169.144.182 | |
| 3.11.254.218 |
The URL and IP addresses are additive, and you can add them at your convenience in order to be ready for our change. We recommend you make any necessary changes well in advance of the migration
Key contact for any questions
If you have any questions relating to the IP address change, please contact the MESH Service Management team at [email protected]
Last edited: 16 January 2025 12:49 pm