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The Cybersecurity Unit of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a survey to understand the cybersecurity needs of pharmacy teams and other primary care sectors. The survey explores current IT and security arrangements and the type of cybersecurity support pharmacy teams would find most useful. It takes just 5–10 minutes to [...]

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The Cybersecurity Unit of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a survey to understand the cybersecurity needs of pharmacy teams and other primary care sectors. The survey explores current IT and security arrangements and the type of cybersecurity support pharmacy teams would find most useful. It takes just 5–10 minutes to [...]

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We’re sharing tips to help pharmacy team members make the most out of NHSmail. Pharmacy owners must ensure: Staff have access to the pharmacy’s shared NHSmail mailbox and can send/receive emails from it. At least two staff members at the pharmacy premises have live personal NHSmail accounts linked to the shared mailbox. Top tips Keep [...]

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is becoming mandatory for all NHSmail users. The NHSmail team previously announced that users would be prompted to enable MFA from late 2024, and a rollout timeline was introduced to support this transition. This initiative follows earlier announcements (from 2023 onwards) about NHSmail MFA becoming a mandatory requirement. What is MFA? Previously, you [...]

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NHS England and Community Pharmacy England continue to recommend that pharmacy team members with NHS Smartcards take the following actions to support ongoing use of their smartcards. If your smartcard or role on your smartcard was set up a long time ago, there may be an action for you to update it to keep it [...]

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