# Custom Patients

**URL:** <https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/custom-patients/15882>\
**Category:** GP Connect\
**Tags:** fhir, pds-fhir-api, spine\
**Created:** [19 October 2026 14:32 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/custom-patients/15882 "2026-10-19T14:32:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![jakob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jakob](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/u/jakob)\
**Post date:** [19 October 2026 14:32 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/custom-patients/15882/1 "2026-10-19T14:32:24Z")

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Hi is it possible to get a custom Patient or patients with a bespoke GP practice on SDS such that we end up pointing to our own FHIR server with the endpoint lookup? We’re increasingly finding issues with INT being down intermittently and would like to be able to have control of our own set of test data to look at edge cases