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Use this API to enable administrative and clinical end users to book and manage patient appointments held in any of the principal GP practice systems.

You can:

• retrieve a patient’s appointments
• search for free slots
• read an appointment
• book an appointment
• amend an appointment
• cancel an appointment

For example:

• staff at a GP practice can book, view, amend or cancel appointments on behalf of a patient at another practice
• staff at an urgent care NHS 111 call centre can book, view, amend or cancel appointments on behalf of a patient - at the patient’s registered GP, or federated GP practices

Note: You need to use this API in conjunction with the GP Connect Foundations FHIR API. With this API you can:

• get patient details - “Read Patient”

• search for patient - “Patient Search”

• get practitioner details - “Read Practitioner”

• search for practitioner - “Practitioner Search”

• get organisation details - “Read Organisation”

• search for organisation - “Organisation Search”

• get location details - “Read Location”

• register patient - “Register Patient”

For more details, see the GP Connect specifications for developers.

This API (v1.2.7) is in beta.

This API is a FHIR API.

For more details, see FHIR.

You need a Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) connection to use this API.

For more details, see Network access for APIs.

For a full list of interactions for this API, see Appointment Management which includes Foundations.

For details on the general structure of the interactions, see FHIR.