Product Backlog
This product backlog contains the features we're delivering to realise our API management vision. You can comment on features, upvote features, and suggest new features.
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Smartcard authentication internet-facing
Make it possible to authenticate with a smartcard using NHS Identity on the internet i.e. without needing an HSCN connection.
Method to retrieve all ERS worklists without smartcard requirement
Could we have a method to download all Appointment Slot Issues and Awaiting Bookings that does not require smartcard access. It would not be restricted to department ...
NHS App API - Patient Appointments
Allow Hospital Patient appointments to be sent to NHS App. Most hospitals have extensive support for appointment messages (in HL7v2) these can easily be transformed ...
Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) FHIR API - dispensing
Ability to access EPS as a dispenser, including getting prescriptions and updating prescription status.
Summary Care Record (SCR) FHIR API - other use cases
The first version of our SCR FHIR API is for primary care. If you are interested in other use cases, please let us know your use case by adding a comment to this feature.
PDS FHIR API - birth registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a birth using the PDS FHIR API.
Data publications as API feeds
A number of NHS Digital publications are made as CSV, Excel and Power BI dashboards. An examples of the types of publications in question: ...
Summary Care Record (SCR) FHIR API - primary care
FHIR-conformant API for creating, adding to, or accessing a patient's Summary Care Record. The first version of this will be for primary care use.
Allow the EPS Prescription data 'status' API to be accessed for citizen facing services
Prescription State
AWAITING_RELEASE_READY = '0000'
TO_BE_DISPENSED = '0001'
WITH_DISPENSER = '0002'
WITH_DISPENSER_ACTIVE = '0003'
EXPIRED = ...
Healthcare Professionals API
Healthcare professional information in England can currently be obtained from a number of different sources such as sds ldap API, publicly available csv file and ...
PDS FHIR API - Including system effective dates
As a trust with local demographic records which are not synchronised with PDS
I want to be able to see the system effective date of attributes in the PDS record
So ...
Notifiable Diseases API
Due to concern that there might be a rise in certain notifiable diseases coming soon, would it be beneficial to everyone if this ...
Under consideration
Ability to update nominated pharmacy element in application restricted access mode
For the PDS FHIR API, ability to update nominated pharmacy element in application restricted access mode. Being a fully online pharmacy 24/7 & having a large number ...
PDS FHIR API - current data only / business effective dates
A number of data fields in the PDS FHIR API include a "period" during which the data is effective (in HL7 V3 these were referred to as "business effective dates"). ...
Open ID Connect (OIDC) support on the OAuth server
Currently we use OAuth 2.0 to authorise external software to access APIs for healthcare workers. There is no standard way for external software to get the end user's ...
Make the GP Connect Access Record: Structured - FHIR API 'Internet Facing'
This is a suggestion to make the GP Connect Access Record: Structured - FHIR API accessible over the internet. According to the referenced page, this API can only be ...
Under consideration
Onboarding - process re-engineering
Identify process pain points in the onboarding process and re-engineer the process to remove those pain points.
Create a building healthcare software guide for the demographics domain
Create a non-technical guide to building software that deals with the demographics within the NHS in England.
Organisation Data Service (ODS) API
Improved, easier-to-use API for accessing organisation data in ODS via the API platform. Possibly FHIR-compliant.
Patient Letter to NHS App
Ability to push a patient letter into NHS App as alternative to sending out via post
PDS FHIR API - Expose person ethnicity
Person data on Spine includes ethnicity. This is not available through PDS FHIR API (or the PDS HL7 v3 API). It is sensitive data and so may be excluded for IG ...
Performance testing capability
Provide something to help API consumers do performance testing. This might be a hosted service or a set of ready-to-go stubs.
Expose APIs as a GraphQL gateway
It would be amazing if you could query a tree of data, then have role based access control to limit what data is returned based on your identity. This means data can ...
Create a building healthcare software guide for the care records domain
Create a non-technical guide to building software that deals with the care records within the NHS in England.
Under consideration
Make the Spine Secure Proxy (SSP) 'Internet Facing'
This is a suggestion to make the Spine Secure Proxy accessible over the internet.
As per the referenced page, this API is only accessible over HSCN. It ...
Under consideration
FP10MDA prescriptions via EPS
FP10MDA is a prescription form used in England for schedule 2 controlled drugs supplied in instalments.
Other Spine (Flags, record or other) information exists indicator in PDS API
An addition to the PDS API that indicates if (spine) flags (or other spine information) exists for the current patient. This would allow an organisation to know if ...
Create a building healthcare software guide for patient-facing applications
Create a non-technical guide to building software that deals with patient-facing applications within the NHS in England.
Digitise the e-Referral Service (eRS) FHIR API onboarding experience
Bring a digitised journey to the eRS FHIR API onboarding https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/e-referral-service-fhir
Training courses / hackathons
Organise formal training courses and / or hackathons for developers to learn how to use our APIs.
Building healthcare software guide for user authentication and authorisation
A guide explaining how to do user authentication and authorisation in healthcare software for the NHS in England, including NHS Care Identity Service 1 & 2, NHS ...
Under consideration
PDS FHIR API - patient registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a new patient (not a birth) in PDS through the PDS FHIR API.
API to convert ASID to ODS code
An API that, given an ASID, provides the corresponding ODS code.
Accessibility - WCAG WAI conformance check
The site is already built largely using WCAG WAI-conformant page templates within the NHS Digital website, but to be sure we need to test conformance and fix any issues.
Single Directory of Service API
Consolidate the numerous directory of service API's into a single service. At present we have DoS for specific areas such as UEC, EPS, eRS, etc.
Role based access control (RBAC) for APIs
Currently, national APIs such as PDS rely on the calling system to implement role-based access controls (RBAC). This in turn increases the assurance burden on ...
e-RS APIs - Rebook/Reschedule an Appointment for a Referral
Addition to the e-RS APIs suite to allow an existing booking to be rescheduled from the provider system. This would need to book the new slot and then release the ...
Electronic Prescription Service Tracker API - enable detailed medicines view
The current Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) Tracker API supports a basic search on the status of the prescription. The proposal is to develop the facility to ...
Remote signing API
API for signing things remotely, removing the need to developers to build their own signing logic. Primary use case is signing prescriptions. To be used in ...
Creation of EBSX02 API endpoint (JSON)
At the moment it's possible to manually download an EBSX02 (daily) spreadsheet, then ingest that into whatever systems.
Can you help to cut out the manual ...
Using EPS for Medication Reconciliation
EPS has a store of accurate primary issues and dispensing history. This is currently only exposed via a prescription tracker API, a more general API would enable ...
APIs for the API platform itself
Provide APIs that allow API producers and/or API consumers to perform "platform" functions through an API. This might include API deployment, monitoring, analytics, ...
Reasonable Adjustment Flag - FHIR API
API for accessing and updating a patient's reasonable adjustment information.
PDS FHIR API - consent to share information
Enhance the PDS FHIR API to allow retrieval and update of consent to share information.
Create a building healthcare software guide for the workforce domain
Create a non-technical guide to building software that deals with the workforce within the NHS in England.
This might include roster management and more general ...
ODS - correctly-cased organisation names on JSON and FHIR APIs
Currently the name of an organisation that is returned from either ODS API is in all-caps. It would be a lot nice for display purposes if the names were in a ...
Using POST instead of GET for search operations
It has been noticed that both the retrieve and search PDS FHIR APIs expect the search parameters as a query string. This means that private data like name, date of ...
Information and training videos
Videos on the developer portal explaining things like how the portal works or tutorials on how to connect to our APIs.
Expose a certificate renewal and download API
Every year 100s, if not 1000s of certificate renewals are performed by a human that requires too many manual steps.
This is costly to the business, it is error ...
Explain how long onboarding will take
It may be useful if I were able to find out how long it takes to go through the compliance/assurance and onboarding processes for the NHS APIs.
Under consideration