NHS England

NHS England (which absorbed NHS Digital in 2023) is the national body that runs England's public health and social care API platform at digital.nhs.uk and api.service.nhs.uk. It publishes a large catalogue of internet-facing APIs - most of them HL7 FHIR R4 built to the FHIR UK Core profile - covering the national spine services: the Personal Demographics Service (PDS), GP Connect, the e-Referral Service (e-RS), the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), the Organisation Data Service (ODS), Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS), immunisation history, the NHS App, NHS Notify, and the Directory of Healthcare Services. Access is governed centrally: applications onboard through the NHS API platform and authenticate with OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens - application-restricted (signed-JWT client credentials / API key) or user-restricted via NHS login (OIDC) and NHS CIS2 - with production access gated behind registration, assurance, and connection agreements. Home market is the United Kingdom (England). Positioning: a single national health system operating public, standards-based (FHIR UK Core) interoperability APIs rather than a commercial API vendor.

Kin Score

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How we profile NHS England

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for NHS England. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Personal Demographics Service (PDS) - FHIR API

National electronic database of NHS patient demographic details - name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP, nominated pharmacy and NHS number - exposed as an ...

GP Connect Access Record - Structured - FHIR API

Lets authorised health and social care staff retrieve a patient's GP practice record as structured HL7 FHIR resources (medications, allergies, problems, immunisations, and more)...

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) - FHIR API

National service for sending electronic prescriptions from prescribers to dispensers (pharmacies), exposed as an HL7 FHIR R4 API. Sandbox FHIR endpoint confirmed live (returns a...

e-Referral Service (e-RS) - FHIR API

Create paperless referrals from primary to secondary care and receive referrals, Clinical Referral Information (CRI) and attachments from the NHS e-Referral Service, as an HL7 F...

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) - FHIR API

Sends booking and referral information between NHS service providers using the Booking and Referral Standard as an HL7 FHIR R4 API. OpenAPI harvested verbatim (8 paths).

Immunisation History - FHIR API

Access a patient's immunisation record (including coronavirus, influenza and HPV immunisations) as an HL7 FHIR R4 API. OpenAPI harvested verbatim.

Organisation Data Service (ODS) - FHIR API

Reference data on NHS and healthcare organisations, roles and terminology (the Organisation Data Service), exposed as an HL7 FHIR R4 API. OpenAPI harvested verbatim (8 paths).

NHS App API

Integrate with the NHS App to deliver messages and content to citizens and to link into NHS App journeys. OpenAPI harvested verbatim (4 paths).

NHS Notify (Communications Manager) API

National service for sending messages to people about their health and care across channels (NHS App, SMS, email, letter). OpenAPI harvested verbatim (7 paths).

Service Search (Directory of Healthcare Services) API

Search the national Directory of Healthcare Services for NHS organisations, services and their attributes. OpenAPI harvested verbatim.

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

nhs-england-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Nhs England Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Nhs England Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nhs England Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Nhs England Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Nhs England Agentic Access

70 operations · 32 acting

70 operations · 32 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for NHS England — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

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