Healthdirect Australia

aid: healthdirect
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/healthdirect/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Healthdirect Australia
kind: company
description: Healthdirect Australia is a national, government-owned, not-for-profit organisation that operates core Australian
  digital-health infrastructure and consumer health services on behalf of the Commonwealth, states, and territories. It runs
  the free healthdirect symptom checker and health advice service and, most relevant to developers, delivers the National
  Health Services Directory (NHSD) — the authoritative national directory of health services and practitioners, covering more
  than 400,000 service and practitioner records. Healthdirect exposes the NHSD to government, commercial, and clinical software
  developers through standards-based HL7 FHIR APIs (aligned to the HL7 AU Provider Directory / AU-PD implementation guide,
  using SNOMED CT-AU terminology and G-NAF geocoded addresses), a FHIR bulk data export, a FHIR ingestion/data-acquisition
  hub for contributing sources, an embeddable NHSD search widget, and a Provider Appointments API that surfaces real-time
  appointment availability from certified booking platforms. Integration is gated behind a formal onboarding and test-environment
  registration process, and APIs are secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials plus an API key. Home market is Australia.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- Australia
- FHIR
- HL7
- Interoperability
- Provider Directory
- National Health System
- Health Services Directory
- Telehealth
- Digital Health
- Appointments
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24T18:00:00Z'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-fhir-api
  name: NHSD FHIR API
  description: Real-time, read-only HL7 FHIR API over the National Health Services Directory, aligned to the HL7 AU Provider
    Directory (AU-PD) implementation guide. Supports querying Organization, HealthcareService, PractitionerRole, and Practitioner
    resources — including geospatial (location.near), open-now/open-at, service-type (SNOMED CT-AU), and identifier searches
    — for over 400,000 service and practitioner records. Secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials plus an x-api-key header.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Provider Directory
  - Healthcare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/index.html
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/nhsd-developers-portal.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_Developer-Guide.pdf
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-fhir-bulk-data-export
  name: NHSD FHIR Bulk Data Export
  description: Read-only HL7 FHIR bulk data export for retrieving large NHSD datasets at a specified frequency, for integrators
    that need the full directory rather than real-time single-record lookups.
  humanURL: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/bulkexports.html
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Bulk Data
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/bulkexports.html
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-ingestion-hub
  name: NHSD FHIR Ingestion & Data Acquisition Hub
  description: HL7 FHIR write/inbound interface for approved data-contributing sources to submit and maintain health service
    and practitioner records in the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/ingestion/index.html
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Ingestion
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/ingestion/index.html
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-provider-appointments-api
  name: NHSD Provider Appointments API
  description: API that surfaces real-time appointment availability and booking integration from certified provider booking
    platforms (AutoMed, HealthEngine, HotDoc, MedAdvisor, Medi2Apps) within the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  tags:
  - Appointments
  - Healthcare
  - Provider Directory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_onboarding-pack_provider-appointments-api.zip
- aid: healthdirect:nhsd-widget
  name: NHSD Search Widget
  description: Embeddable, responsive NHSD search component that third parties can deploy on websites and mobile apps to let
    consumers find health services and practitioners, backed by the National Health Services Directory.
  humanURL: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
  baseURL: https://widget.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v1/widget/search
  tags:
  - Widget
  - Provider Directory
  - Healthcare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://media.healthdirect.org.au/publications/NHSD_widget-implementation-guide.pdf
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/healthdirect-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/healthdirect-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/
- type: ConsumerWebsite
  url: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub
- type: Documentation
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://build.fhir.nhsd.healthdirect.org.au/v4/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/getting-started
- type: SignUp
  url: https://healthdirect-serviceline.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/group/12/create/44
- type: Support
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/technical-support
- type: Blog
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/news
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthdirect-australia
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/privacy-policy
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/nhsd-developers-portal.postman_collection.json
- type: Security
  url: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/.well-known/security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/healthdirect-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/healthdirect-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/healthdirect-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/healthdirect-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/healthdirect-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/healthdirect-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/healthdirect-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://about.healthdirect.gov.au/what-we-do/portfolio/nhsd/integration-hub/standards
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/healthdirect-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/healthdirect-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/healthdirect-components.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/healthdirect-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/healthdirect-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml