Final Primary Care Community of Practice Meeting
Attended the last Primary Care Community of Practice meeting as CRN North West Coast before the merger to become the RRDN North West this week. Good meeting and nice to meet in person rather than Teams. Some interesting conversations and good that the NHS is getting keener on commercial research (which we have been doing for 15 years). There were some strategic talks but also some conversations about operational matters. The number of websites you have to log on to often several for each study and the usual nightmare of passwords and usernames all with different requirements came up from several people.
It strikes me that given the NHS is adopting the study onto its portfolio and providing support to get it going shouldn’t we be insisting that as part of adoption their tools need to integrate/interface with ours? Why can’t they use SmartCard or NHS mail Login authentication? So, I can single sign on? A lot of websites are now using passkeys? is there some way of me being authenticated on an NHS network that would prove to one of these sites who I am?
EMIS have just upgraded their security - I know Gateway uses Smartcard authentication so it’s possible for third parties to use these - I know some have had issues with using Windows Logins. Thoughts?