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Find out about NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) planned maintenance and service availability.

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Maintenance outage - 8 July 2006

Regarding the service-impacting work planned on the NHS e-Referral service (e-RS) to implement maintenance.

Planned change timing

Thursday 9 July 2026 9:30pm Thursday 9 July 2026 11:30pm.

Planned change outage

Thursday 9 July 2026 9:30pm Thursday 9 July 2026 11:30pm (for 1-2 minutes between these times).

Expected user outcome

Users will be unable to access the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) for a few minutes during the change outage window.

What is planned for this outage?

This outage is for maintenance.


Contact details

If you have any questions, please e-mail: [email protected].

If you would like to receive the planned release communications for all nationally delivered services including e-RS, please contact your implementation and business change manager or email: [email protected].


Further information

internal Releases

Find out about NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) releases.

internal Business continuity guidance - NHS e-Referral Service

Read our guidance on system availability and business continuity, including background and purpose, maintaining access to e-RS local infrastructure, responding to loss of access to e-RS and invoking business continuity arrangements.

Last edited: 8 July 2026 9:42 am