# Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) - FHIR API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-booking-and-referral-fhir/  
**Provider:** NHS England — https://apis.io/providers/nhs-england/  
**Base URL:** https://api.service.nhs.uk/booking-and-referral/FHIR/R4  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/NHSDigital/booking-and-referral-fhir-api

Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS) - FHIR API is one of 10 APIs that [NHS England](https://apis.io/providers/nhs-england/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include FHIR, Booking, and Referrals. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

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).

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nhs-england/refs/heads/main/openapi/nhs-booking-and-referral-fhir-openapi.yaml
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/NHSDigital/booking-and-referral-fhir-api
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nhs-england/refs/heads/main/overlays/nhs-booking-and-referral-fhir-overlay.yaml

## Other NHS England APIs (9)

- [Personal Demographics Service (PDS) - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-personal-demographics-service-fhir/)
- [GP Connect Access Record - Structured - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-gp-connect-access-record-structured-fhir/)
- [Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-electronic-prescription-service-fhir/)
- [e-Referral Service (e-RS) - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-e-referral-service-fhir/)
- [Immunisation History - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-immunisation-history-fhir/)
- [Organisation Data Service (ODS) - FHIR API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-organisation-data-service-fhir/)
- [NHS App API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-app-api/)
- [NHS Notify (Communications Manager) API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-notify-communications-manager/)
- [Service Search (Directory of Healthcare Services) API](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-service-search/)

## Tags

FHIR, Booking, Referrals

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/nhs-england/nhs-booking-and-referral-fhir/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/nhs-england/.