**NHS England & NHS Improvement Regional teams - please cascade this alert to all GP Practices.***
All GP practices in England are required to register to receive CAS alerts directly by 01 October 2019.
Practices are asked to use the link below to register by no later than 13 September 2019.
In support of improving patient safety alerting system resilience for general practice, there are new contractual requirements for practices to:
- register a practice email address with the CAS and monitor the email account to act on CAS alerts where appropriate;
- notify the MHRA if the email address changes to ensure MHRA distribution list is updated;
- register a mobile phone number (or several numbers) with the MHRA CAS which will only be used as an emergency back up to email for text alerts when e-mail systems are down.
Until 1 October, NHS England and NHS Improvement regional teams will continue to issue CAS alerts to general practice.
The attached alert provides further information.