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Tracks the use of online appointments in General Practices and collects information on the availability to patients of electronic access to their test results, GP letters, prescriptions and online appointment booking facilities.

This information standard provides for a consistent approach to identity management across digital health and care services, covering verification and authentication.

API standards to enable sharing of patients' vital signs and National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) scores between systems and across care boundaries, using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

Locate and access patient information shared by other healthcare organisations using the National Record Locator (NRL) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API.

Sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales.

Sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales, in General Practice.

Sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales, in secondary care.

An information model that describes provenance data more simply, as to who made a health or care record entry or carried out the activity, where and when.

Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to a patient's Summary Care Record (SCR) using our SMSP API standards.