Digital Maternity API standards
API standards to enable sharing and updating of digital maternity records
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Status
- Retired
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Technical standards and specifications
Show definitions of standard types
Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
interoperabilityteam@nhs.net
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Access to records
- Continuity of care
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
No known related standards.
Legal basis
- Collaborating Organisations
No known endorsements.
Page last updated: 01 December 2025