GP Connect · Rate Limits

Gp Connect Rate Limits

NHS England does not publish explicit per-endpoint rate-limit headers for the GP Connect APIs. Access is mediated by the Spine Security Proxy (SSP) for clinical system APIs (Access Record Structured, Access Document, Appointment Management, Send Document, Update Record) and by NHS login OAuth 2.0 token scopes for patient-facing APIs. Fair-use constraints apply at the SSP and Spine layer. Production capacity is governed by NHS England infrastructure rather than per-API-key quotas.

Gp Connect Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for GP Connect on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.

Tagged areas include NHS, FHIR, Healthcare, Rate Limiting, and UK.

3 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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Limits

environment
Sandbox is open access and stateless. No hard rate limit is published; fair-use expected. Sandbox does not reflect production throughput.
platform
Silver service: 24/7 availability, business-hours support only (Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 excl. bank holidays). Applies to all GP Connect integration and production environments.
system
Limits governed at the HSCN/SSP infrastructure level. Consuming systems must be SSP-compliant and hold valid Spine credentials. No per-system numeric cap is publicly documented.

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