Patients Know Best
Patients Know Best (PKB) is a UK health-technology company operating what it describes as the world's largest personal health record, with more than seven million registered patients across the NHS and other health systems. The platform lets patients hold, view and share their medical records, messages, test results, care plans and questionnaires with clinicians and carers across web, mobile and the NHS App. For integrators, PKB publishes a HL7 FHIR STU3 (3.0.2) API — the "Facade" FHIR server at my.patientsknowbest.com/fhir — that conforms to the NHS CareConnect profiles and exposes patient demographics, documents, observations, appointments, consent, questionnaires and read receipts, secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials. PKB was surfaced as a Seedcamp portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist network.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Patients Know Best the way a machine reads it — 4 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Patients Know Best scores 43.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 19/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Patients Know Best
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Patients Know Best. 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 1
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.
PKB Facade FHIR API
HL7 FHIR STU3 (3.0.2) "Facade" server exposing Patients Know Best personal health record data — Patient, Appointment, Communication, Consent, DiagnosticReport, DocumentReference...
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Patients Know Best — 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.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Patients Know Best, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
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