# NHS England

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nhs-england/  
**Website:** https://digital.nhs.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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 — 52.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 60.1 |
| Governance | 30.3 |
| Contract Governance | 30.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 7.9 |
| Access Clarity | 7.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 52.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 52.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | verified |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (10)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **NHS England MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Nhs England Agentic Access** — 70 operations · 32 acting

## Security (3)

- **Nhs England Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Nhs England Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Nhs England Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Healthcare, United Kingdom, National Health System, FHIR, HL7, Interoperability, SMART on FHIR, Health Data, e-Prescribing, EHR

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nhs-england/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.