I’m working on a regional integration project and I’d like to query health practitioner details (in Spine or ODS). We are already doing this with other care directory APIM services such as PDS (for Patient NHS Number identifiers) and ODT (Organisation ODS code identifiers).
We are following NHS England guidance and so using
CONSULTANT_CODE - identifiers begin with a 'C" and [ GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER PPD CODE] (GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER PPD CODE) identifiers begin with a ‘G’.
This are often used by NHS Trusts we are working with and it would be ideal if we had an API to look up details given either of these identifiers.
A nice to have would be also to do the same with NHS England Spine - SDS user ID (SDS has a link to both of the above national identifiers).
The API I am looking for is probably similar to Healthcare Worker - FHIR API but using the national identifiers, not SDS User ID.
Ideally the API would follow the following search parameters
These are taken from IHE Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD) which provides a fairly accurate description on why + how we are using APIM API’s as a directory service.