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Directory of Services (DoS)
Summary
The Directory of Services (DoS) is a central directory that is integrated with NHS Pathways and is automatically accessed if the patient does not require an ambulance or by any attending clinician in the urgent and emergency care services.
Top tasks
The DOS supports clinicians, call handlers, commissioners and patients by:
providing real time information about available services and clinicians across all care settings that are available to support a patient as close to a patient's home as possible
the interoperability options of the system means a patients only need to describe their symptoms once, enabling them to be directed to the correct available service for their symptoms without repeat triage
providing information about the most appropriate and cost effective care for a patient
reducing the burden on urgent and emergency and secondary care settings by reducing unnecessary ambulance call outs and hospital referral
having the data on the demand and supply of health care skills it collects easily analysed and reported with the integrated Intelligent Data Tool
Directory of Service APIS
The Directory of Services (DoS) contains information for a wide range of health and care services across England.
The DoS provides APIs to allow third party systems to retrieve service information from the DoS. Read more about DoS and APIs.
Only users who comply with the DoS acceptable use policy are allowed to use the DoS. Learn more about the DoS acceptable use policy.
Learn more about the application process, including what to include and how to apply
Further information
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internal Access to Service Information (A2SI) Directory of Services (DoS): GDPR information
Why and how we process your data in the Access to Service Information (A2SI) Directory of Services (DoS) and your rights.
Last edited: 5 April 2019 8:33 am