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Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Information Governance HL7 V3 API Service CentralSubmit ambulance analytics data to our Data Processing Service (DPS) for analysis and review by NHS England and ambulance trusts.
Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services FHIR MESH Sandbox API Service CentralAmbulance Messaging supports the Ambulance Service Summary Patient Report containing a summary of care events and care data.
Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services Appointment / Scheduling HL7 V3 API Service IntermediarySupport transfer of care from hospital to social services for patients with care and support needs.
Hospital Inpatient Social Care Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediarySend bowel cancer screening test results from the screening system to GP practices.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Tests and Diagnostics MESH API Service IntermediaryAPI standards using FHIR STU3 to create a unified approach to interoperability across England.
FHIR API StandardAccess child protection information from Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) using our HL7 V3 API.
Community health Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Social Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services A&E / Emergency Department OOH GP Access to Records Key Care Information HL7 V3 API Service CentralAPI standards to support the triage and onward referral of patients who are interacting with Urgent and Emergency Care services, such as NHS 111.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Patient / Citizen GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Clinical Decision Support FHIR REST API StandardAccess a patient’s coronavirus (COVID-19) test results history.
Patient / Citizen Tests and Diagnostics FHIR REST Sandbox API Service CentralAccess a feed of alerts issued by our cyber security centre.
Information Governance Security REST API Service CentralAccess a wide range of live lists of lookup data with our Data Registers Service.
Reference Data REST API Service CentralSubmit a file of patient information to the Spine for tracing against the Personal Demographics Service (PDS).
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Demographics API Service CentralShare information about a child's health between healthcare professionals.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Mental Health GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH NEMS API Service IntermediaryAPI standards to enable sharing and updating of digital maternity records.
Community health Hospital Maternity GP / Primary Care Access to Records Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR API StandardNotify a patient's registered GP practice of care services provided by a pharmacy, such as immunisation.
Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) Vaccination FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryAccess information on a wide range of health and care services across England using our Directory of Services REST API.
Patient / Citizen GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care NHS 111 Reference Data REST API Service CentralAccess information on a wide range of health and care services across England using our Directory of Services SOAP API.
Patient / Citizen GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care NHS 111 Reference Data SOAP API Service CentralSend a discharge report following transfer of responsibility for a patient.
Hospital Inpatient GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) HL7 V3 API Service IntermediaryAPI standards to provide a structured way to record dosage instructions between primary and secondary care settings.
Community health Hospital GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) Prescribing Dispensing FHIR API StandardUse these API standards to share medication requests between ePMA systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Prescribing Dispensing FHIR API StandardAccess information about dispensing services, including searching for dispensers who can provide dispensing services for a patient with a given location and urgency, using our Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Directory of Services (DoS) API.
Urgent And Emergency Care OOH GP Prescribing Dispensing Reference Data REST API Service CentralAccess the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) - the national service used to send electronic prescriptions from GP surgeries to pharmacies.
Outpatient Prescribing Dispensing FHIR REST Sandbox API Service CentralAccess the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) to send prescriptions from prescribers such as GPs to dispensers such as pharmacies using our HL7 V3 API.
Community health A&E / Emergency Department GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department OOH GP Prescribing Dispensing HL7 V3 API Service CentralTrack a patient’s prescriptions within the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Pharmacy Prescribing REST API Service CentralAccess the NHS UK Web Services to retrieve dispensaries information for a patient
Community health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care OOH GP Access to Records Dispensing Reference Data SOAP API Service CentralSend an emergency department report following discharge or transfer of responsibility for a patient.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) HL7 V3 API Service IntermediaryAPI standards to enable sharing and updating of digital end of life care (EoLC) records.
Community health Hospital GP / Primary Care Social Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 Access to Records FHIR API StandardCreate paperless referrals from primary to secondary care using the e-Referral Service (e-RS) FHIR API.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Appointment / Scheduling Referrals FHIR API Service CentralCreate paperless referrals or manage appointment slots in secondary care using the e-Referral Service (e-RS) HL7 V3 API.
Hospital Appointment / Scheduling Referrals HL7 V3 API Service CentralShare female genital mutilation (FGM) information for children under 18 with relevant NHS professionals across England using our Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Information Sharing FHIR API.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Key Care Information FHIR API Service CentralAPI standards using FHIR release 4 to create a unified approach to interoperability across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
FHIR API StandardValidate and retrieve UK-based postal addresses.
Demographics Reference Data SOAP API Service CentralSend anonymised or patient-identifiable data from GP clinical systems for planning and research.
Community health Access to Records Key Care Information SOAP HL7 V3 API Service CentralTransfer patients' electronic health records, securely and quickly, between their old and new practices when they change GPs.
GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) HL7 V3 API Service IntermediaryRetrieve unstructured documents from a patient’s GP practice record.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Access to Records Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR REST API Service IntermediaryView a patient's GP practice record, with read-only access.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Access to Records Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR REST API Service IntermediaryRetrieve structured information from a patient’s GP practice record.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Access to Records Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR REST API Service IntermediaryManage GP practice appointments between different systems.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Appointment / Scheduling Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR REST API Service IntermediarySend a PDF consultation summary to a registered GP practice.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryAccess a patient’s coronavirus (COVID-19) immunisation history.
Patient / Citizen Vaccination FHIR REST Sandbox API Service CentralAPI standards for a set of generic messaging components using FHIR STU3 to create a unified approach to NHS message and document flows across England.
FHIR MESH API StandardAccess patients' Legitimate Relationships (LR) using our HL7 V3 API.
Hospital Access to Records Information Governance HL7 V3 API Service CentralThe Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) is the main secure large file transfer service used across health and social care organisations.
Transport / Infrastructure Messaging MESH API Service Central IntermediaryCapture patients' preferences and control sharing of their data by healthcare organisations for planning and research purposes with our National Data Opt-out (NDOP) FHIR API.
Community health Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient Mental Health GP / Primary Care Social Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department OOH GP Access to Records Information Governance FHIR MESH API Service CentralAPI standards to enable sharing of patients' vital signs and NEWS2 scores between systems and across care boundaries, for example, between two hospitals.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services A&E / Emergency Department Access to Records Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR API StandardPublish and subscribe to patient-centric event messages with the National Events Management Service (NEMS).
Transport / Infrastructure Continuity of Care (ToC) Messaging FHIR MESH NEMS API Service Central IntermediaryManage GP registrations and other patient data in NHAIS.
GP / Primary Care Demographics MESH API Service IntermediaryRaise failsafe alerts about children with the National Population Failsafe Management (NPFM) FHIR API.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Mental Health GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) Key Care Information FHIR API Service IntermediaryLocate and access patient information shared by other healthcare organisations using the National Record Locator (NRL) FHIR API.
Transport / Infrastructure Access to Records FHIR API Service CentralAPI standard to share information between NHS 111 and other organisations, such as GPs and ambulance services, and query the Repeat Caller Service.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department SOAP HL7 V3 API StandardEngage with users of the NHS App.
Hospital Patient / Citizen GP / Primary Care Patient Communication REST API Service IntermediarySearch for free slots and book appointments with this API formerly known as FHIR NHS Scheduling API
Urgent And Emergency Care NHS 111 Appointment / Scheduling FHIR API Service IntermediaryVerify the identity of health and care professionals in England, such as NHS staff, when they access national clinical information systems.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 Security API Service CentralAccess multiple digital health and social care services with a single login for patients and the public, including authentication for returning users.
Patient / Citizen Security API Service CentralPull content from the NHS.UK website about health conditions, health news, medicines A-Z and more, using our free NHS Syndicated Content APIs and widgets.
Patient / Citizen REST API Service CentralAccess details of health and social care organisations using our Organisation Data Service (ODS) FHIR API.
Community health Dentistry Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Social Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department OOH GP Reference Data FHIR API Service CentralAccess details of health and social care organisations using our Organisation Data Service (ODS) ORD API.
Community health Dentistry Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Outpatient Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Social Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 A&E / Emergency Department OOH GP Reference Data REST SOAP API Service CentralAccess an outpatient report.
Hospital Outpatient GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) HL7 V3 API Service IntermediarySend pathology test results from laboratories to GP practices.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Tests and Diagnostics MESH API Service IntermediaryShare pathology results in NHS primary and secondary care settings.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Tests and Diagnostics FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryRequest laboratory tests and send the results back to the requester, usually the patient's GP or consultant.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Tests and Diagnostics HL7 V3 API Service IntermediaryAccess patients' personal information, such as name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP and NHS number using our FHIR version of the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) API.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Demographics FHIR Sandbox API Service CentralAccess patients' personal information, such as name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP and NHS number using our HL7 V3 version of the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) API.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Demographics SOAP HL7 V3 API Service CentralReceive notifications about changes to a patient's demographic details, including birth, death, change of address and change of GP.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department Inpatient Mental Health GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) Demographics FHIR MESH NEMS API Service IntermediaryAccess patients' personal information, such as name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP and NHS number using our SMSP API.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Demographics API Service CentralAccess details of accredited systems in the Spine Directory Service (SDS) using this SOAP API.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Reference Data SOAP API Service CentralAccess the Reasonable Adjustment Flag - a national record which indicates that a patient requires reasonable adjustments and includes relevant details.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Key Care Information FHIR REST Sandbox API Service CentralGenerate an electronic signature using your smartcard.
Outpatient Prescribing Security REST API Service CentralAccess accredited system information and messaging endpoint details in the Spine Directory Service (SDS) using our FHIR-conformant API.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 Reference Data FHIR Sandbox API Service CentralAccess details of organisations, people and systems registered in the Spine Directory Service (SDS) using our LDAP API.
Hospital GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 Reference Data API Service CentralProvide single sign-on for Spine users.
Access to Records Security HL7 V3 API Service CentralAccess patient's Summary Care Record (SCR), an electronic record of important patient information, using our FHIR API.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Access to Records FHIR REST Sandbox API Service CentralAccess a patient's Summary Care Record (SCR) using our HL7 V3 API. Also previously known as PSIS query and GP summary.
Community health Hospital Mental Health Pharmacy GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care Ambulance Services NHS 111 OOH GP Access to Records HL7 V3 API Service CentralAutomate the download of TRUD release files.
Reference Data REST API Service CentralRetrieve terminologies and classifications from the NHS Digital Terminology Server.
Reference Data FHIR REST API Service CentralCreate and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information supporting an emergency care discharge.
Hospital A&E / Emergency Department GP / Primary Care Urgent And Emergency Care A&E / Emergency Department Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryCreate and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information supporting an inpatient discharge.
Hospital Inpatient GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryCreate and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information supporting a mental health discharge.
Hospital Mental Health GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediaryCreate and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information following an outpatient consultation in a clinic.
Hospital Outpatient GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) FHIR MESH API Service IntermediarySubmit 111 or 999 call triage data for quality monitoring purposes, following an NHS Pathways patient phone assessment.
Urgent And Emergency Care NHS 111 Continuity of Care (ToC) REST API Service CentralProvide information to NHS Digital on adverse reactions relating to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations.
Community health GP / Primary Care Vaccination MESH API Service IntermediaryProvide information to NHS Digital relating to coronavirus (COVID-19) and seasonal flu 2020-21 vaccinations.
Community health GP / Primary Care Appointment / Scheduling Vaccination MESH API Service IntermediarySend and receive messages about changes to a patient's vaccination details.
Community health Hospital Inpatient Outpatient GP / Primary Care Continuity of Care (ToC) Vaccination FHIR MESH NEMS API Service Intermediary