The Digital Onboarding Service is the assurance process for NHS England to permission use of NHS APIs to organisations and suppliers.
The NHS will integrate APIs with an organisation after first checking if the organisation is viable and feasible with the right credentials, permission and privileges. Therefore, an organisation must complete an NHS API Assurance flow of questions and requirements. One or many APIs are assigned to a product. One or many products are assigned to an Organisation. An applicant belonging to an organisation logs in to digital onboarding via their developer account that is linked to their organisation.
There are three types of use of the Digital Onboarding Service that can interact in this community category:
Producer: NHS team/department lead authoring the assurance flow set of questions and requirements.
Consumer: The developer, business, supplier, company, connecting party and/or legal entity owning the instance of the product or manufacturer that has one or many devices, hardware, software, firmware or apps that requires NHS information via an NHS API
Review and Approver: NHS personnel who review and assess an application, bridge information accurately from the producer and approve/reject the API assurance application submitted by the consumer