Multicast Notification Service

Welcome to Multicast Notification Service (MNS).

Use MNS to publish or subscribe to lightweight healthcare related events.

MNS allows NHS England product teams to publish patient related events using ‘publish-subscribe’ messages.

Subscribers receive notification of the events that match their subscription criteria via their chosen delivery method (via MESH or AWS SQS).

Examples of events include:

  • a patient’s birth
  • a patient’s death
  • a newborn child’s vaccinations
  • a change to a patient’s NHS number

In this category you can get support with your MNS queries by posting a question.

You can also find more detailed documentation in our API specification.