Data publications as API feeds

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A number of NHS Digital publications are made as CSV, Excel and Power BI dashboards. An examples of the types of publications in question:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/appointments-in-general-practice/april-2022

It would be helpful for seamless updates to these open publications to be provided via an API fed data stream. An example of where this has been done elsewhere is on the Gov website here:
https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v2/data?areaType=msoa&metric=newCasesBySpecimenDateRollingSum&metric=newCasesBySpecimenDateRollingRate&format=csv

This would allow for external systems to reach into the data stream and pull in the latest updates to key statistics and aggregate metrics for use elsewhere in the NHS system (or wherever else these open publications are currently used)

Under consideration api unknown-api Suggested by: William Wood (21 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 26 Feb • Comments: 1

Comments: 1

22 Jun, '22
Sridhar Peddi
Having an API fed data means a lot of simplification to ingest this data locally. Would really benefit local ICS teams in getting hold of most up-to-date data.