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. If your suggestion relates to our e-Referral service then please complete this form instead. To view e-Referral service requests, see here.

Help and support - service desk tool integration

Ability for developers to raise service desk tickets online via their developer account and view the status of those tickets.
Suggested by: API Management Team (11 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 11 Jul, '20 Comments: 1

Diagnostic Imaging API

The National Imaging Registry programme proposes making a patient's diagnostic imaging history discoverable by querying the National Record Locator. A Diagnostic ...
Suggested by: Brian Diggle (05 Sep) Upvoted: 05 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration

NHS website Ratings and Reviews API

Migration of the Ratings and Reviews API from the NHS website developer portal onto the NHS Digital API Management platform
Suggested by: Rachel Gibson (31 Aug) Upvoted: 31 Aug Comments: 0
Planned

Diagnostic Imaging Report API

The Diagnostic Imaging Report API would focus initially on the radiology domain to enable radiology imaging study reports to be retrieved in a standard format. No ...
Suggested by: Brian Diggle (29 Aug) Upvoted: 29 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecate Digital Medicine - FHIR

The Digital Medicine - FHIR message integration has been deprecated - this includes the following MESH workflow IDs: - DIGMED_FLU_VAC - DIGMED_EMG_MED You can ...
Suggested by: Matty Firth (21 Jun) Upvoted: 21 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration

Structured Summary Care Record API

This API is intended to replace the existing Summary Care Record HL7v3 Interface. The API will orchestrate the API calls (PDS, SDS and Access Strcutured Record via ...
Suggested by: David Fletcher (20 Jun) Upvoted: 20 Jun Comments: 0
Under consideration

Prescriptions for Patients API

API to provide patients with access to prescriptions sent by the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Suggested by: John Kitson (13 Jun) Upvoted: 16 Jun Comments: 0
In progress api PfP API

PDS Notifications FHIR API - Nominated Pharmacy Change Event

Currently if a notification is required when a nominated pharmacy changes then PDS Notifications FHIR API will send a “general record change” event, meaning a ...
Suggested by: Martyn (18 May) Upvoted: 18 May Comments: 0
Under consideration

GP Connect (Patient Facing) User Management - 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 ...
Suggested by: Ben Davies (25 Apr) Upvoted: 25 Apr Comments: 0

Multicast Notification Service (Event Management) API

Connecting NHSE product teams by providing notifications of patient related state changes in easily consumable formats via data streams and filtered subscriptions ...
Suggested by: Tom D'Roza (19 Apr) Upvoted: 19 Apr Comments: 0
In progress

Deprecation of Electronic Prescription Service Directory of Services

This API is under review for deprecation. We will contact all suppliers before agreeing a retirement date.
Suggested by: Matty Firth (23 Mar) Upvoted: 23 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Genomic Order Comms

The ability to order a new test or track an ongoing test. This would be between an Ordering Entity and a GLH with a Central Broker sat between the two.
Suggested by: Tahir Malik (21 Mar) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Genomic Test Directory

The ability to query tests from the Test Directory based on a pre defined search criteria.
Suggested by: Tahir Malik (21 Mar) Upvoted: 27 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Retirement of COVID-19 Medical Exemptions - FHIR API

The COVID-19 Medical Exemptions - FHIR API is now retired and no longer available for use.
Suggested by: Matty Firth (15 Mar) Upvoted: 15 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecation of COVID-19 Medical Exemptions - FHIR API

The COVID-19 Medical Exemptions - FHIR API has been deprecated. Do not use for new integrations.
Suggested by: Matty Firth (09 Feb) Upvoted: 09 Feb Comments: 0
In progress

Map for NHS facilities

Having a map of the NHS facilities on the NHS app may help patients who may get lost
Suggested by: Abubakr (09 Jan) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Having hospital canteen menus and pricing online

Adding the ability to add opening times of facilities of hospitals and other places of care on the app along with menus and pricing and location of the facilities on ...
Suggested by: Abubakr (09 Jan) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Having an individualised QR code for every patient

Assigning a personalised QR code for each account would allow many new features to be used. For example, in the future, it could allow patients to use their phones to ...
Suggested by: Abubakr (09 Jan) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Making d-CBT features available on the app

Making digital cognitive behavioural therapy (d-CBT) features on the app may be a good addition. NHS Scotland already has an agreement with Daylight for usage of ...
Suggested by: Abubakr (09 Jan) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Adding smoking and perhaps tracker and digital aids to quit

Adding how many cigarettes/drinks one has had may help in tracking progress and helping to quit. Aids such as 2 minute games or other help and advice might help in ...
Suggested by: Abubakr (09 Jan) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecation of Digital Maternity API standards

Deprecation of Digital Maternity API standards - we discourage their use for new applications.
Suggested by: Matty Firth (24 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 24 Nov, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Access Control Service - HL7 V3 API is under review for deprecation

The Access Control Service - HL7 V3 API is under review for deprecation. If you are developing a new integration, consider using the Summary Care Record - FHIR API, ...
Suggested by: Matty Firth (31 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 31 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
In progress

Electronic Transmission of Prescription Web Services - SOAP API is under review

We are considering deprecating the ETP Web Services SOAP API. This API is currently under review.
Suggested by: Matty Firth (28 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 28 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
In progress

CaaS Cohort Definition Management GraphQL API

Cohorting as a Service securely identifies groups of people with shared characteristics from national health data. The results enable tailored direct care to be ...
Suggested by: Darren Hickling (27 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 27 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
In progress

CaaS Published Cohort Definitions GraphQL API

Cohorting as a Service securely identifies groups of people with shared characteristics from national health data. The results enable tailored direct care to be ...
Suggested by: Darren Hickling (27 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 27 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
In progress

National Record Locator Cloud API

API to provide pointer data to consumers so that they may access documents stored by producers (e.g Ambulance staff "Consumer" access pointer data to Mental health ...
Suggested by: Joe Walker (07 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 07 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
In progress

API / live Data for A&E Services

This would allow both internal and external personnels to monitor on the number of clients/patients waiting at any given time at an A&E department, enabling better ...
Suggested by: Amrol (02 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 06 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecate / retire the Pathology Messaging - HL7 V3 integration

We are considering deprecating and retiring the Pathology Messaging - HL7 V3 integration. Usage is minimal and will be superseded by another API. ...
Suggested by: SACHIN PATHAK (15 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 15 Aug, '22 Comments: 0

Deprecate / retire the Spine Security Broker API

We have deprecated and will ultimately retire the Spine Security Broker API. https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/spine-security-broker
Suggested by: Matty Firth (09 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Planned

Deprecate / retire the Data Registers Service - REST API

We are considering deprecating and ultimately retiring the Data Registers Service - REST API. Usage is either minimal or it is not being used. ...
Suggested by: Matty Firth (20 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 20 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration api deprecation-retirement

PDS to add other gazetteer property references e..g UPRN

Currently PDS only adds PAF code to addresses like Home address - but a lot of supplier systems out there use OS Addressbase as it is now free to gov agencies, that ...
Suggested by: Kate Gill (11 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 11 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecate / retire the Pathology Messaging FHIR (STU3) API

We are considering deprecating and retiring the Pathology Messaging FHIR (STU3) API as this API is going to be superseded by Pathology Messaging FHIR (R4) API
Suggested by: Sachin Pathak (07 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 07 Jul, '22 Comments: 0

Publish a list of API consumers / register of healthcare software

It might be useful for people building healthcare software to see which software applications are consuming each of our APIs - this might help them make decisions on ...
Suggested by: Tony Heap (30 May, '22) Upvoted: 30 May, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Spine re-imagined

This is a big one! As suggested by Gary McAllister, could we organise information in a better way, with less focus on GP records and more focus on a set of ...
Suggested by: Tony Heap (26 May, '22) Upvoted: 26 May, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Deprecate / retire the NHS Booking API

We are considering deprecating and eventually retiring the NHS Digital API in favour of the NHS Booking and Referral API
Suggested by: Avanti (08 Mar, '22) Upvoted: 08 Mar, '22 Comments: 0

Support rendering externalDocs objects in the OpenAPI schema

https://swagger.io/specification/#external-documentation-object can be attached to: the whole specification; operations; schema. For example on the PDS FHIR API ...
Suggested by: Alex Hawdon (11 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 11 Jan, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

API Specification - Additional navigation level under Operation

The content under a given operation may be quite lengthy, one example is the "Update patient details" (PATCH /Patient operation) on the PDS FHIR API: ...
Suggested by: Alex Hawdon (11 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 11 Jan, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Dose to Text API

Ability for systems to send a structured dose syntax to an API and in response receive the dosage as a text string as outlined here - ...
Suggested by: Shafique Aksar (23 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 23 Dec, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration api dose-to-text-api

Update ITK2.2 catalogue entry to reflect this is HL7 v2 and v3 messages

https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/interoperability-toolkit-messaging-hl7-v2-standard - this is not correct. ITK2.2 includes specific messaging domains ...
Suggested by: Kate Gill (09 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 09 Dec, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration

Live chat developer support

Ability to chat to us in real time to get developer support.
Suggested by: Tony Heap (09 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 09 Nov, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration

NHS Booking and Referral (BaRS) - event subscription and publication API

This is a placeholder - features coming soon
Suggested by: David Ruddy (21 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 21 Jul, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration api nhs-bookingreferral-event-api

NHS Booking and Referral (BaRS) - endpoint lookup and management API

This is a placeholder - features coming soon
Suggested by: David Ruddy (21 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 21 Jul, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration api nhs-bookingreferral-endpoints

NHS Booking and Referral (BaRS) - booking and service request (orchestration/registry) API

This is a placeholder - features coming soon
Suggested by: David Ruddy (21 Jul, '21) Upvoted: 21 Jul, '21 Comments: 0

Calling application version management

Add an optional field in API requests specifying the software version of the Connecting System. This could be descriptive, such as 'v1.0.5', or an ID such as a GUID ...
Suggested by: Martin Fison (04 May, '21) Upvoted: 04 May, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration platform platform-phase-3

PDS FHIR API - limited data returned

The citizen record to be returned could be specified, and limited, when calling the PDS FHIR API. This may help with information governance, and other "only as much ...
Suggested by: Alex Lord (26 Apr, '21) Upvoted: 26 Apr, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration api pds-fhir-api

Merge the two oath2 endpoints in the API-M INT environment into a single endpoint

Description: There are two identity services in INT, both using Oauth2: • One identity service “/oauth2” needs to use a smartcard/OIDC and uses NHS Identity to ...
Suggested by: Danny Ruttle (04 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 04 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration platform platform-phase-3

National Record Locater API - standards

As suggested by techUK in their draft ten point plan, the National Record Locater should support key standards such as Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) ...
Suggested by: API Management Team (12 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 12 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Under consideration api nrl-api

FHIR policy update

Our FHIR policy hasn't been looked at in a while. The scope of this feature is to revisit it and refresh it, maybe adding further details.
Suggested by: API Management Team (12 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 12 Jan, '21 Comments: 0

Developer / integration guide - Urgent and Emergency care and 111

An online guide containing best practice guidance for integrating urgent and emergency care software with NHS Digital APIs
Suggested by: Katharine (23 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 17 Nov, '20 Comments: 0

Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) - scheduled care

Extend the CP-IS service to support scheduled care organisations (currently only for unscheduled care). This includes enhancing alerts to local authorities to state ...
Suggested by: API Management Team (20 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 20 Oct, '20 Comments: 0
Planned api cp-is-api