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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Worker (HCW) 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 - dispensing
Ability to access EPS as a dispenser, including getting prescriptions and updating prescription status.
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: ...
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 ...
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.
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 = ...
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.
Patient Letter to NHS App
Ability to push a patient letter into NHS App as alternative to sending out via post
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 - 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 ...
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"). ...
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 ...
Genomic Data Access & Management (GDAM) API
A series of standards-based API endpoints to allow partners in the NHS Genomic Medicine Service to access and manage genomic data
FP10MDA prescriptions via EPS
FP10MDA is a prescription form used in England for schedule 2 controlled drugs supplied in instalments.
Organisation Data Service (ODS) API
FHIR R4 API for accessing ODS data via the API platform.
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 ...
National Document Repository API
Allow integration with the National Document Repository, which stores digital patient records (such as Lloyd George records).
Reasonable Adjustment Flag - FHIR API
API for accessing and updating a patient's reasonable adjustment information.
PDS FHIR API - update related persons
Ability to update related persons via the PDS FHIR API
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
Immunisation FHIR API
The creation of a centralised API immunisation events is part of a wider strategic piece to share and record data in real time. This allows health care workers to ...
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 ...
Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) FHIR API - prescribing
Ability to access EPS as a prescriber, including creating prescriptions and cancelling prescriptions.
PDS - search on contact details
Ability to include contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses in PDS searches
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 ...
Find the Right Service (FtRS) - Directory of Service Electronic Prescription Service - Onboarding
Onboarding of the FtRS EPS-DoS API onto the APIM platform.
The API is currently in production and is being used by several connecting parties.
There are ...
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 ...
PDS FHIR API - patient registration / NHS number allocation
Ability to register a new patient (not a birth) in PDS through the PDS FHIR API.
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 ...
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, ...
API to convert ASID to ODS code
An API that, given an ASID, provides the corresponding ODS code.
Eligibility Signposting API (Vaccinations)
API to return configurable (rule-based) eligibility status and next actions information for a given person (and optionally a given vaccination/condition type).
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) submission API
API to submit data collections to SDCS - https://digital.nhs.uk/services/strategic-data-collection-service-sdcs.
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 ...