# NHS Digital **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nhs-digital/ **Website:** https://digital.nhs.uk/developer **APIs profiled:** 23 NHS England Digital is the national provider of digital health technology for the NHS in England. It delivers a comprehensive suite of REST and FHIR APIs covering patient demographic services, personal demographics, electronic prescriptions, summary care records, referrals and bookings, GP Connect, vaccination records, and national clinical data services. APIs are hosted on the NHS API platform at api.service.nhs.uk with sandbox and production environments, supporting OAuth 2.0 / private-key JWT, NHS CIS2 Care Identity, NHS login, and API-key authentication patterns. ## Kin Score — 42.1 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.1). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 81.5 | | Contract Quality | 59.9 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 0.0 | | Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 | | Commercial Clarity | 50.0 | | Access Clarity | 50.0 | Regulatory layer — **Health**: 33.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 43.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | documented | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (23) - **Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API** — Access the national NHS patient demographic database. Supports search, retrieval, and update of patient records including names, addresses, dates of birth, registered GPs, nomin... - **Electronic Prescription Service - FHIR API** — Transmit electronic prescriptions between prescribers and community dispensers. Prescribers can create, encode, and cancel prescriptions; dispensers can download prescriptions, ... - **Summary Care Record - FHIR API** — Access a patient's Summary Care Record (SCR), a national electronic record of key clinical information derived from GP records. Also provides access to the Access Control Servic... - **National Record Locator - FHIR API** — Locate and access patient information shared by other NHS healthcare organisations to support direct patient care. Supports both producer and consumer roles, enabling providers ... - **Booking and Referral - FHIR API** — Send booking and referral information between NHS service providers following the NHS Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS). Enables interoperable bookings and referrals across u... - **GP Connect Appointment Management - FHIR API** — Manage appointments across GP practices. Enables third-party systems to search for available slots, book appointments, amend or cancel bookings, and retrieve appointment details... - **e-Referral Service - FHIR API** — Interact with the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS), the national paperless referral system for primary and secondary care. Supports creating and managing referrals, retrieving avai... - **Immunisation History - FHIR API** — Retrieve a patient's immunisation history recorded in NHS national systems. Supports clinical decision-making, care continuity, and patient-facing applications by providing stru... - **NHS App API** — Engage with users of the NHS App, enabling healthcare organisations and suppliers to send in-app messages, manage notifications, and trigger communications to patients who have ... - **Directory of Healthcare Services (Service Search) API** — Search for NHS healthcare services across England including GPs, dentists, opticians, hospitals, pharmacies, and other care settings. Returns structured service information, loc... - **NHS Login API** — Authenticate patients and members of the public using NHS login, the national identity service for patient-facing digital health services in England. Implements OpenID Connect a... - **Spine Directory Service - FHIR API** — Query the Spine Directory Service (SDS) to look up endpoint information, organisation codes, and service metadata for NHS organisations and systems registered on the NHS Spine. ... - **Health Research Data Catalogue API** — Retrieve metadata about NHS health datasets suitable for publication in health research catalogues. Enables researchers and data controllers to discover available NHS datasets, ... - **NHS Website Content API** — Pull content from the NHS.UK website about health conditions, medications, live well guidance, mental health, care and support, and the NHS system. Returns structured JSON conte... - **Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) API** — Exchange messages and data files between NHS organisations using MESH, the national messaging infrastructure. Supports sending and receiving structured clinical messages, bulk d... - **NHS Digital Booking API** — The Booking API from NHS Digital — 2 operation(s) for booking. - **NHS Digital communication API** — The communication API from NHS Digital — 4 operation(s) for communication. - **NHS Digital Message API** — The Message API from NHS Digital — 1 operation(s) for message. - **NHS Digital Metadata API** — The Metadata API from NHS Digital — 2 operation(s) for metadata. - **NHS Digital R4 API** — The R4 API from NHS Digital — 6 operation(s) for r4. - **NHS Digital Referral API** — The Referral API from NHS Digital — 2 operation(s) for referral. - **NHS Digital Slots API** — The Slots API from NHS Digital — 1 operation(s) for slots. - **NHS Digital STU3 API** — The STU3 API from NHS Digital — 32 operation(s) for stu3. ## Agentic access (1) - **Nhs Digital Agentic Access** — 52 operations · 25 acting ## Security (3) - **Nhs Digital Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **Nhs Digital Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC - **Nhs Digital Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published ## Plans (1) - **Plans** ## Tags NHS, Health, FHIR, UK, Patient Demographics, Prescriptions, Referrals, Clinical Data, Digital Health, Government --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nhs-digital/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.