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Make it possible to authenticate with a smartcard using NHS Identity on the internet i.e. without needing an HSCN connection.

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 ...

Ability to access EPS as a dispenser, including getting prescriptions and updating prescription status.

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.

Ability to register a birth using the PDS FHIR API.

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 ...

Prescription State AWAITING_RELEASE_READY = '0000' TO_BE_DISPENSED = '0001' WITH_DISPENSER = '0002' WITH_DISPENSER_ACTIVE = '0003' EXPIRED = ...

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.

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 ...

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"). ...

Identify process pain points in the onboarding process and re-engineer the process to remove those pain points.

Currently, to set up a public key for signed JWT auth, API consumers need to email API management and ask them to do it. This feature would make it self service, just ...

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 ...

Provide something to help API consumers do performance testing. This might be a hosted service or a set of ready-to-go stubs.

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 ...

Improved, easier-to-use API for accessing organisation data in ODS via the API platform. Possibly FHIR-compliant.

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 ...

Ability to access EPS as a prescriber, including creating prescriptions and cancelling prescriptions.

Currently, all API deployments have to be done by the API Management central team. This change would allow API producer teams to do their own API deployments at a ...

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 ...

A number of NHS Digital publications are made as CSV, Excel and Power BI dashboards. An examples of the types of publications in question: ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An API that, given an ASID, provides the corresponding ODS code.

Ability to register a new patient (not a birth) in PDS through the PDS FHIR API.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Provide APIs that allow API producers and/or API consumers to perform "platform" functions through an API. This might include API deployment, monitoring, analytics, ...

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 ...

Enhance the PDS FHIR API to allow retrieval and update of consent to share information.

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 ...

Ability to include contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses in PDS searches

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 ...

Bring a digitised journey to the eRS FHIR API onboarding https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/e-referral-service-fhir

Ability to push a patient letter into NHS App as alternative to sending out via post

Organise formal training courses and / or hackathons for developers to learn how to use our APIs.

Videos on the developer portal explaining things like how the portal works or tutorials on how to connect to our APIs.

Uplift documentation for all existing APIs to a minimum standard, so that external developers can easily learn what the API does, how to use the API, how to test it, ...

User research is really important for APIs, but API producer teams typically don't have a dedicated UR - perhaps because they don't see the value, perhaps because ...

We are considering deprecating and eventually retiring the Personal Demographics Service - Spine Mini Service Provider (PDS SMSP) API. This is because the newer PDS ...

The developer account is based on a product and has UX pain points. The scope of this feature is to refresh it and bring it more into the NHS Digital look & feel to ...

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 ...

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.

There are medicine products are available only in your DM&D browser, also provide same through the rest API, so it can be implemented in software's to get all details.

API to submit data collections to SDCS - https://digital.nhs.uk/services/strategic-data-collection-service-sdcs.

The PDS FHIR API currently supports search (not using NHS Number) and retrieve (using only NHS Number). Either of these can be used to verify an NHS Number is ...

Enhance CP-IS to capture additional information on care events, such as reason for attendance, contact details for the healthcare professional, which specific site, ...

Create a non-technical guide to building software that deals with the demographics within the NHS in England.