General Practice Extraction Service - HL7 V3

Use this integration to send patient data from General Practice (GP) clinical systems to General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). This data can then be used for planning and research. 

You can:

• receive requests for data
• send requested data

For example, the GPES data for pandemic planning and research is used to support the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This data is used to analyse healthcare information about patients, for the duration of the coronavirus emergency period.

This integration is retired and is no longer available for use. It has been replaced by a GPES messaging which runs over MESH.

Although the integration is retired, we still allow GP software systems to be authorised to access the GPES HL7 v3 interactions within the Spine Directory Service. We do this because it's an easy way for us to know which GP software is in active use at a given GP practice.

This integration is an HL7 V3 integration. 

For more details, see HL7 V3.

Message Handling System (MHS) adaptor

To remove the complexity of building your own Message Handling System, we offer a pre-assured, client side MHS adaptor that you can integrate into your own infrastructure.

It makes it easier to connect to the NHS Spine and perform business operations by exposing a RESTful API that conforms to the HL7 V3 standard. 

For a full list of interactions for this integration, see the GPES Domain Message Specification.