Version: 1.0.1 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 44 days ago
Personal Demographics Service - SMSP API standards
Dataset
Summary
Type:
Technical standards and specifications
Topics:
Demographics
Care Settings:
- Community health
- GP_/_Primary care
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Contact Point
Contact Point:
Documentation
Documentation Link:
Relations:
The following APIs also give access to the Personal Demographics Service:
Name:Personal Demographics Service - FHIR API
Explanation:Use this newer standard to search for patients, retrieve patients by NHS number
and update patients
Name:Personal Demographics Service - HL7 V3 API
Explanation: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).
Name:Personal Demographics Service - SMSP API
Explanation:This API is now deprecated.
Name:Organisation Data Service - FHIR API
Explanation:Use this to get full details for the organisations related to the patient, such
as their registered GP or nominated pharmacy.
Name:Organisation Data Service - ORD API
Explanation:Use this to access a searchable national repository of NHS Organisation
Reference Data using an ORD interface.
Name:Personal Demographics Service Notifications - FHIR
Explanation:For birth notifications using FHIR, another option is Personal Demographics
Service Notifications - FHIR.
Name:National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS)
Explanation:When registering a new patient at a GP Practice, use NHAIS.
Dependencies:
[object Object]
Review & Status
Dataset Identifier:
8853ee2f-53d7-4442-8b9e-eb501c4cad9a
Mandated:
No
Status:
deprecated
Collaborating Organisations:
[object Object]
Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue