I’ve looked at nhs login [1] as a developer. The process is a mess of filling out forms, waiting months for reviews (the service is being rationed like many things in the nhs), answering questions about political imperatives and executive sponsorship, requests for more reviews and paperwork, etc. it’s no wonder their previous attempts at this have failed, it’s simply easier to meet budgets and deadlines (read: funding cycles) by rolling your own auth.

If this next one is going to work, they need to consider the developer experience as well as the end users.

[1] https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-login/nhs-login-for-part...