Case Study: NHS Leadership Academy achieves scalable, secure unified identity across four nations and 200+ trusts with Auth0

How the NHS Leadership Academy is scaling with Auth0

The NHS Leadership Academy, which supports leadership development across the UK’s NHS, faced an aging bespoke training platform that lacked modern authentication standards and Single Sign‑On, making it hard to integrate with the many legacy systems used by 200+ trusts and its 280,000 users. The team rewrote the core on Laravel to improve scalability and developer efficiency but needed a robust identity solution to replace time‑consuming, in‑house authentication work.

They procured Auth0 (after a five‑month approval process) and integrated it with Laravel and Active Directory, enabling self‑service account management, easier app onboarding and account migration, and advanced security features. The result: faster product iterations, reduced maintenance and support calls, happier developers, and plans to roll out breached‑password detection and long‑term passwordless authentication.

NHS Leadership Academy

Ishani Vardhan

Digital Delivery Lead