NRL Audits and SSP Retrieval is it being phased out?

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Noticed SSP Retrieval is now on an archive, does this mean it is becoming retired?

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250306000638/https://developer.nhs.uk/apis/nrl/retrieval_ssp.html

I’ve been looking at NRL provider auditing requirements - we are asking that our repository becomes phase 1 of a national programme (Unified Genomic Record) using NRL. We are similar to National Imaging Registry in several areas (with no DICOM).

Are the NRL auditing requirements in SSP retrieval current?

(Note: our current auditing is based on the same design used internally in NHS England Spine - we both follow IHE BALP Basic Audit Log Patterns (BALP) - Basic Audit Log Patterns (BALP) v1.1.4 which is referenced in IHE MHDS, which I believe NRL + NIR is also intending to follow)

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Hi Kevin,

Yes, those auditing requirements are current, and can also be found on the NRL producer API specification. The old developer hub domain (where the legacy NRL API spec used to live) has been decommissioned (see thread here), but that doesn’t mean the services have been decommissioned yet. The NRL API catalogue documentation no longer contains any links to the inaccessible developer hub domain, but does link out to archived versions of this content in places.

Elizabeth

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