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Foundations

Introduction to the GP Connect Foundations capability

Purpose

The foundations capability cover the basic API requirements and prerequisites to utilise the GP Connect APIs.

Prerequisites

PDS

You’ll need to be able to provide a verified NHS Number to use an API. This can be achieved using a spine accredited system, a DBS batch-traced record (CSV), or using a Spine Mini Services Provider (HL7v3).

SDS / ODS

In order to resolve a given GP Practice organisation to their URI you’ll need to be able to do a spine SDS query (LDAP) using the practice’s ODS Code to perform an SDS End Point Lookup.

FHIR

In order to be a compliant FHIR server, provider systems need to expose a valid FHIR Conformance profile.

Please also refer to Development Guidance - FHIR API Guidance - Common API Guidance for full details on the common FHIR API patterns used throughout all the GP Connect APIs.

Use cases

Spine interactions

The Foundation capability message set includes the following set of spine interactions:

Operation InteractionID
Read Metadata urn:nhs:names:services:gpconnect:fhir:rest:read:metadata

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