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NHS 111 API
Share information between NHS 111 and other organisations, such as GPs and ambulance services.
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Overview
Use this API for point-to-point messaging to share information between NHS 111 and other organisations, such as GPs and ambulance services, when a patient interacts with NHS 111.
It supports the following communication types from NHS 111:
- advise a healthcare facility or GP of an expected visit from a patient who has called NHS 111
- advise a patient's GP when a patient is referred to another healthcare facility
- advise the ambulance service that a patient requires an ambulance
- query the repeat caller service
API status
This API is stable.
Technology
This API uses synchronous ITK SOAP with an ITK CDA payload.
NHS 111 Report adaptor
If you are building a system that receives NHS 111 reports, you can use our NHS 111 Report adaptor to receive SOAP messages and convert them to an easy-to-use FHIR-compliant format.
Interactions
For more details see the NHS 111 Domain Message Specification in TRUD.
You need to register for an account on TRUD to download the specification.
Last edited: 18 December 2020 9:25 am