NHS Developer Community

The NHS Developer Community brings together people working with NHS APIs and services, including integrators, product teams and technical specialists. It provides an open space to ask and answer questions, and learn from real-world experience of integrating and supporting NHS services.

By making questions and answers visible and reusable, the Community helps reduce duplication, improves support at scale and gives teams better insight into real-world integration challenges. 

The Developer Community is for people working with NHS APIs and services who need to ask questions, share knowledge or support others. This includes: 

• developers, suppliers and integration teams building with NHS services 
• product and service teams who own and support those services 

Key features for all users

• Send direct messages to other members
• Ask questions and receive responses
• Search for and reuse existing answers
• Follow discussions about APIs and NHS services
• Share knowledge with others

Use the Community when you need to:

• Get help with issues not covered in existing documentation, or where guidance is unclear
• Understand how others have approached a similar problem
• Clarify guidance or resolve uncertainty about a service
• Ask questions that could benefit other users
• See announcements about our services and APIs, when you don't know where to start or need access to a direct NHSE team 

For NHS teams, use the Community when you need to:

• Respond to user questions in a shared space
• Share updates or guidance with a wider audience
• Identify and understand common issues affecting users
• promote your service or APIs, and manage your users' comms, engagements or workflows

The Community is a shared, open Discourse forum where questions and answers are visible to everyone. 

• Discussions are organised into categories, usually based on APIs or services, as well as general topics such as announcements and feedback 
• Questions are posted as topics, and responses build into threaded discussions that others can follow and contribute to 
• Discussions remain available over time, creating a growing knowledge base that others can search and reuse 
• NHS teams and Community members contribute to discussions and respond to queries in the same space 
• You can search, filter, or follow specific topics, services, or tags to stay informed about activity 

Read guidance on how to join the Community, and set up your profile and find your way around. You don’t need a login to access these resources.