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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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 ...
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.
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 - 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.
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 ...
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 = ...
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"). ...
Patient Letter to NHS App
Ability to push a patient letter into NHS App as alternative to sending out via post
Organisation Data Service (ODS) API
FHIR R4 API for accessing ODS data via the API platform.
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 ...
National Document Repository API
Allow integration with the National Document Repository, which stores digital patient records (such as Lloyd George records).
GP Connect (Patient Facing) Access Record - FHIR API
NHS Digital are developing a new set of Patient Facing Service (PFS) APIs to standardise the PFS APIs for New Market Entrants/foundation system suppliers.
This work ...
Reasonable Adjustment Flag - FHIR API
API for accessing and updating a patient's reasonable adjustment information.
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 ...
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
DM&D Rest API
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.
PDS FHIR API - patient registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a new patient (not a birth) in PDS through the PDS FHIR API.
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 ...
API to convert ASID to ODS code
An API that, given an ASID, provides the corresponding ODS code.
Organisation Data Service (ODS) API - Search by address
Currently, we can search for an organisation by name and by postcode but not by address. Can you add a search by address feature to the ORD & FHIR versions of the API?
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
PDS - search on contact details
Ability to include contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses in PDS searches
PDS FHIR API - consent to share information
Enhance the PDS FHIR API to allow retrieval and update of consent to share information.
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 ...
Service Search API
API to find information about NHS services, including lists of NHS organisation types, organisations, and coronavirus (COVID 19) walk-in sites.
search for NHS ...
Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) submission API
API to submit data collections to SDCS - https://digital.nhs.uk/services/strategic-data-collection-service-sdcs.
pds-fhir-api - sort out names
Patient names in the PDS FHIR api usage types do not match our other APIs
PDS FHIR API uses the "use value" of "usual" for the official name, however all out other ...
Deprecate / retire the Personal Demographics Service - Spine Mini Service Provider API
We are considering deprecating and eventually retiring the Personal Demographics Service - Spine Mini Service Provider (PDS SMSP) API. This is because the newer PDS ...
GP Connect Prescriptions Management FHIR
NHS Digital are developing a new set of Patient Facing Service (PFS) APIs to standardise the PFS APIs for New Market Entrants/foundation system suppliers. This work ...
Include "A008 - Retrieve referral worklist" in e-Referral (eRS) Application Restricted API
This development would help us make more use of the available endpoints for retrieving referrals via UBRN and download their attachments as we will be able to ...
API for NHS job search
API for NHS job search to appear on local Health & Care careers website
PDS FHIR API - verify NHS Number (cross-check trace)
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 ...
Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) - additional information
Enhance CP-IS to capture additional information on care events, such as reason for attendance, contact details for the healthcare professional, which specific site, ...
Message Exchange for Social Care and Health REST API
API for exchange of healthcare data between organisations
PDS FHIR API - update related persons
Ability to update related persons via the PDS FHIR API
GP Connect Appointments Management - Patient-Facing
NHS Digital are developing a new set of Patient Facing Service (PFS) APIs to standardise the PFS APIs for New Market Entrants/ GP foundation system suppliers. This ...
Improve Directory of Services API (REST)
Documentation is rather scarce - no code samples for example.
Would love the NHS Developer portal in general to look more like some of the better documentation ...
Remove Spine Security Proxy (SSP)
Replace Spine Security Proxy (SSP) with a more point-to-point alternative, with some other form of auth wrap.
Address Quality Service - UPRN validation
Provide validation to address updates by adding a UPRN to the update in real time.