New: [AEA-6063] - Process post-dated prescription updates by wildjames · Pull Request #2589 · NHSDigital/eps-prescription-status-update-api

wildjames · 2026-01-08T15:09:27Z

Summary

✨ New Feature

Details

The metadata is now being added to the PSU data item when it is present. This PR will add a new lambda and SQS which will implement the business logic, as described here: link

github-actions · 2026-01-08T15:09:38Z

This PR is linked to a ticket in an NHS Digital JIRA Project. Here's a handy link to the ticket:

AEA-6063

wildjames · 2026-01-22T12:04:47Z

Including the post-dated meta.lastUpdated field now results in the prescription being placed on the post-dated SQS instead of the usual one:

And this is picked up on the other end by the post-dated lambda:

Note that omitting the meta.lastUpdated field still pushes the prescription to the old notifications queue:

…is. Refactor the functions around that accordingly

…ven one

tstephen-nhs · 2026-02-11T11:18:30Z

  // (Optional, legacy batch-processors only) Indicates that {@link LastModified} is postdated;
  // contains the ISO 8601 timestamp when the postdated update was set.
+  // todo: This field needs to be passed to the sqs message for post-dated updates
+  // FIXME: This should be called PostDatedLastUpdatedSetAt


We agreed the proposed name is not better. But as yet have not found a better one.

sonarqubecloud · 2026-02-12T13:41:29Z

Quality Gate passed

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Define the infrastucture. Dummy lambda that runs frequently

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Merge branch 'main' into aea-6063-trigger-post-dated-prescriptions

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Update the PSU lambda to put post-dated data on the post-dated SQS

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Add env var for sqs tests

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Implement reading the SQS messages in the post dated lambda

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Merge branch 'main' into aea-6063-trigger-post-dated-prescriptions

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log post dated information, if present

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Forgot to pass the new SQS url through to the lambda functions

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Fetch matching prescription ID records fromthe prescriptions data table

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The data table fetching was not using the GSI - update it so that it …

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…is. Refactor the functions around that accordingly

merge main

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