Personal Demographics Service - SMSP API standards
Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to patients' personal information, such as name, address, date of birth, related people, registered GP and NHS number, using our Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) API standards.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Status
- Deprecated
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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
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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.
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Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Demographics
- Care setting
- Community health
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
These standard can only be used where there is a legal basis to do so.
- Related standards
The following APIs also give access to the Personal Demographics Service:
- 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, for which National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) should be used).
- Personal Demographics Service - SMSP API This API is now deprecated.
- Organisation Data Service - FHIR API Use this to get full details for the organisations related to the patient, such as their registered GP or nominated pharmacy.
- Organisation Data Service - ORD API Use this to access a searchable national repository of NHS Organisation Reference Data using an ORD interface.
- Personal Demographics Service Notifications - FHIR For birth notifications using FHIR, another option is Personal Demographics Service Notifications - FHIR.
- National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) When registering a new patient at a GP Practice, use NHAIS.
- Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API
Legal basis and endorsements
- Collaborating Organisations
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Page last updated: 27 June 2024