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National Event Management Service - FHIR API
Publish and subscribe to patient-centric event messages with the National Events Management Service (NEMS) FHIR API. This national service is implemented on the NHS Spine.
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Overview
Use this API to publish and subscribe to patient-centric event messages with the National Events Management Service (NEMS). This national service is implemented on the NHS Spine.
You can:
- publish an event message
- create a subscription
- read a subscription
- delete a subscription
Currently, NEMS supports a limited range of event messages.
NEMS has a growing list of system suppliers and health and social care organisations authorised to publish information as events.
For more details, see the Introduction to the National Events Management Service.
API status
This API is stable.
Technology
This API is a FHIR API.
Specifically, it is based on the HL7 FHIR STU3 Messaging Implementation.
For more details, see FHIR.
Interactions
For a full list of interactions for this API, see Generic Publication API Guidance and Subscriptions Overview.
For details on the general structure of the interactions, see FHIR.