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Female Genital Mutilation - Information Sharing - FHIR API
Share female genital mutilation (FGM) information for children under 18 with relevant NHS professionals across England using our Female Genital Mutilation - Information Sharing (FGM-IS) FHIR API.
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Overview
Use this API to share female genital mutilation (FGM) information for children under 18 with relevant NHS professionals across England.
You can:
- create an FGM flag for a patient
- delete an FGM flag for a patient
- query a patient's FGM status
For more details, see Introduction to the FGM Information Sharing Service.
API status
This API is in beta.
Technology
This API is a FHIR API.
Specifically, it is based on the HL7 FHIR DSTU2 1.0.1 Messaging Implementation.
For more details, see FHIR.
Interactions
For a full list of interactions for this API, see Service Development Assets.
For details on the general structure of the interactions, see FHIR.
Last edited: 23 November 2020 9:14 am