PDS FHIR API - patient access using NHS login

32 votes

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 view their own record and make limited updates to it (e.g. contact details but not registered GP, because there's a process for that). It would not allow patients to perform a PDS search to find their own record - rather then must identify themselves by creating an NHS login account.

Done api make-help-and-support-easier pds-fhir-api platform platform-phase-2 Suggested by: Tony Heap (11 Jul, '20) • Upvoted: 08 Feb • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

08 Sep, '20
Tony Heap Admin
We originally saw this as a high priority but we haven't managed to find any concrete use cases as yet so it's on hold until we do. If you are interested in this feature, please upvote it or leave a comment including your contact details so we can discuss.
05 Nov, '20
Sagar
Hello Tony, Thanks for your reply. I would like to develop an application which can give exact status of prescription to the patient. I am more than happy to discuss with you, if you can drop me an email.

Thanks.
20 Jan, '21
Mike Smith
All Patient facing services need to be able to display the patients details to the patient so they can be confident their information is accurate.
25 Jan, '21
Tony Heap Admin
Mike, this is a good point, but it is probably more in the scope of the calling application than in the API itself. The API will, indeed, make the patient's personal details available to the calling app so it can do this. And we can, of course, provide guidance to this effect in our docs.
28 Feb, '21
JKMCS
Hi Tony, We have a web platform that healthcare professionals can create and manage patient appointments. We've already expanded this capability with a patient/patient by proxy interface. Happy to discuss
10 Jun, '21
Mike Smith
Think this might be better handled as part of work we are exploring around the NHS Account (in NHSX) - there are some complexities we would need to consider i.e. what verification level would be needed
10 Jun, '21
Tony Heap Admin
We have started work on this and hope to have it delivered within the next couple of months. We are looking for beta participants so if you're interested please get in touch via api.management@nhs.net. Or you can upvote this feature and leave your email address, or add a comment here.
27 Oct, '21
Tony Heap Admin
This is now available for testing. See "patient access mode" in https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/personal-demographics-service-fhir.