News - week commencing 22 January 2024

NHS England currently provides 24 hours access to the ERDDEP and ERSDEV environments. after analysing usage of the environments, it has been observed that the environments are not being used after 8PM and at the weekends. Therefore it has 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. It is proposed to start this process from week commencing 5 February 2024. if you have feedback on this proposal, please email the contact below.

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

Path to Live Integration 

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

After extensive discussions, involving multiple stakeholders, NHS England have decided to deprecate the Opentest environment. From 1 January 2024 the Opentest environment will no long be available. There are several reasons why the environment is to be deprecated:

• all the functionality of the Opentest environment, including access from the internet, is available in the standard Path to Live Spine environments
• the Opentest environment consists of ageing infrastructure that will be difficult to replace or repair
• the Opentest environment doesn't support many NHS England services such as CIS or e-RS or recent NHS England services , such as APIM

Customers in Opentest should begin to consider testing in alternative environments, especially the Integration environment that offers full support for all services