About us
Digital Prevention Services Portfolio (DPSP) is part of NHS England.
We design, build, deliver and operate critical national digital infrastructure across vaccinations, screening, children’s health, home testing, and personalised prevention. We thrive on tackling some of the thorniest problems in the NHS.
We bring NHS services to people, not people to services. We use what the NHS already knows about people to help them stay healthy: spotting risks earlier, offering support at the right time, and preventing illness escalating to the point where acute care is needed.
At the same time, we’re building high quality services for NHS staff: meeting the needs of clinicians and administrators, involving them directly in service design and iteration.
Our work is central to delivering the three big shifts set out in the NHS 10 Year Plan: analogue to digital, sickness to prevention, hospital to community. We are embedded in policy and operational teams, working with them to deliver high-quality software, and radically transform how the NHS works. Many of our services are proofs of concept as we move toward a digital-first NHS.
We are partnering with the NHS App team to deliver more prevention services there – helping to transform the app into a lifelong digital companion and helping to shift more NHS care from reactive treatment to proactive engagement.
We want to bring about:
- radically reimagined preventative healthcare for everyone, staff and patients alike
- a seamless end-to-end personalised health journey delivered via the NHS App
- far-reaching transformation of existing services in vaccination, screening and children’s health
- innovative new approaches for personalised prevention and home testing
We’re structured around delivery
We’re organised into 5 delivery areas, focused on specific aspects of healthcare: vaccinations, screening, children’s health, home testing and personalised prevention. These areas are supported by 2 additional support areas: one working on operations, and another on cross-cutting technology, data, innovation and communications.
How we work
Our teams build services for the NHS, by the NHS.
We are:
- replacing and upgrading old NHS technology with modern alternatives
- putting user needs first, designing and iterating with input from real people who will use what we build
- upholding our values of being considerate, inclusive, bold and open
We’re eager to help
Most of our services have a direct impact on staff, or patients, or both. They are all free to use. We have a lot to offer to local teams in regions, ICBs, Trusts, GP surgeries and pharmacies.
If you:
- have a question
- want to book a call
- want to work with us
… please send an email to england.dpsp-front-door@nhs.net