Personal Demographics Service Notifications - FHIR
Receive notifications about changes to a patient's demographic details, including birth, death, change of address and change of GP using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.
About this standard
- Owner
- NHS Digital
- Status
- Active
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Active standards are stable, maintained and have been assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Standards in development are APIs or API standards in alpha or beta, meaning they are available for use but are still in progress and may change.
Deprecated standards are older versions of a standard which are being phased out.
Retired standards are not being maintained and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Technical standards and specifications
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Record standards define what information to collect and how to format it, for example when registering a new patient.
Data definitions and terminologies define the format of individual data items so they can be consistently represented, for example dates or medication names. Reference sets and controlled lists are also included.
Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
Information codes of practice are legal or best practice guidelines on how information should be handled.
- Contact details
- api.management@nhs.net
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- Documentation
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Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Continuity of care (ToC)
- Demographics
- Care setting
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Patient
- GP / Primary care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
- National Events Management Service (NEMS) - use this integration to publish and subscribe to patient-centric event messages.
- Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) API - use this API to transfer messages and large files securely across health and social care organisations.
- Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API - use this newer standard to search for patients, retrieve patients by NHS number and update patients.
- Personal Demographics Service - HL7 V3 API - use this if you want to use functions that are not yet available on the FHIR API, such as creating a new record for a birth, receiving birth notifications, or creating a record for a new patient (except when registering a new patient at a GP Practice; use National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS)).
Assurance and endorsements
- Reference code for standards issued as requirements in England
- None - not legally mandated
- Quality assurance
Not yet known.
- Endorsements
No known endorsements.
Page last updated: 20 January 2023