Set up a Slack notification for TRUD releases

[KatieB5]

Why are we doing this?

TRUD releases the NHS Primary Care Domain (PCD) refsets and the NHS Drug refsets whenever they are updated (i.e. not on a fixed release cycle). There are typically around four releases per year.

When a release occurs, we need to manually run a script to update the OpenCodelists service with the latest refsets.

At the moment, we rely on team members:

• creating a TRUD account, and-
• subscribing to email notifications for PCD and Drug refset updates,
  in order to know when a release has happened.

This approach has a few real/potential issues, including:

• not all team members have a TRUD account
• not everyone with an account is subscribed to notifications
• email notifications can be missed or overlooked

As a result, there is a risk that refset updates are delayed or missed entirely.

How will we know when it's done?

• We have agreed as a team whether we want automated notifications for PCD and Drug refset releases in our Slack channel
• If we do want notifications, we have investigated whether this is feasible
• Based on that investigation, we have either:
  • Implemented the notification, or
  • documented why it isn’t feasible or desirable and closed this issue

What are we doing?

• Discuss as a team whether we want automated notifications for PCD and Drug refset releases in Slack

If we decide yes:

• Investigate the feasibility of sending notifications to the TeamREX Slack channel when new PCD or NHS Drug refsets are released
• Implement the work, or update this ticket if it's not trivial

If we decide no:

• Add a comment to this issue summarising the team’s decision and rationale
• Close this issue

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Defining delivery tasks guidance

[StevenMaude]

This should be done and we now have alerts configured.

It looks like we should get a release in the next month or two, based on the existing release cadence. So I set up a reminder to review this on 2026-06-01.