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.
PDS FHIR API - application-restricted / smartcardless access
Enhance the PDS FHIR API so it can be accessed without an authenticated end user present (i.e. without the need for a smartcard) - similar to the way PDS Spine Mini ...
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.
PDS FHIR API - patient access using NHS login
Allow the PDS FHIR API to be accessed by patients. This would require the citizen to have an NHS login account (so they are strongly authenticated) and allow them to ...
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 - birth registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a birth using the PDS FHIR API.
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 = ...
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 - 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 ...
Spine Directory Service (SDS) FHIR API
FHIR-compliant API for accessing the Spine Directory Service (SDS), for example to retrieve details of endpoints for messaging other healthcare systems.
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: ...
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"). ...
Eyecare e-Referral Service API standard
An API standard for eyecare referrals. This API standard supports auto-population of digital referral platforms used when referring patients to NHS services from a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Organisation Data Service (ODS) API
Improved, easier-to-use API for accessing organisation data in ODS via the API platform. Possibly FHIR-compliant.
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 ...
Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) FHIR API - prescribing
Ability to access EPS as a prescriber, including creating prescriptions and cancelling prescriptions.
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 ...
Immunisation History API (COVID and more)
API to allow citizens to get (prove) details of immunisations they have received, such as for COVID-19. For third party apps using NHS login to prove the citizen's ...
Patient Letter to NHS App
Ability to push a patient letter into NHS App as alternative to sending out via post
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
API to convert ASID to ODS code
An API that, given an ASID, provides the corresponding ODS code.
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.
FP10MDA prescriptions via EPS
FP10MDA is a prescription form used in England for schedule 2 controlled drugs supplied in instalments.
PDS FHIR API - patient registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a new patient (not a birth) in PDS through the PDS FHIR API.
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 ...
Make MESH API onboarding easier
The MESH API is a relatively high volume onboarding journey. We should digitise the onboarding process.
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, ...
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 ...
NHS App API - messages containing links to onboarded services should support single sign on (SSO)
In-App messages that are sent containing links to onboarded "silver"/"web" integrated features should be rendered in such a manner that clicking upon them will ...
PDS to proactively tell a GP System when a Patient record is updated
In order to keep the local record up to date in the Synchronisation process, GP Systems have to regularly poll the PDS for "new versions" of their registered ...
PDS - search on contact details
Ability to include contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses in PDS searches
PDS FHIR API - new API method to identify changed data
We have a general need to verify that personal data is correct and up to date; at present we poll the PDS FHIR API and/or SMSP to identify if data has been updated ...
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 ...
Exemplar API - PDS FHIR API - search & retrieve - production
Make the PDS FHIR API available for production use, including the onboarding process.
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 ...
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.
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 - 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, ...
Exemplar API - PDS FHIR API - authentication for healthcare professionals using NHS Identity
Allow the PDS FHIR API to be accessed by healthcare professionals by authenticating with NHS Identity - using a smartcard or more modern alternative.
Reasonable Adjustment Flag - FHIR API
API for accessing and updating a patient's reasonable adjustment information.
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 ...