PDS API Sandbox returns inconsistent values where there is no predefined response

Personal Demographics Service (PDS)
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The PDS API Sandbox environment returns an empty Bundle in response to Patient searches where there is no predefined response. This leads to misleading behaviour. For example:
Patient?family=Sm* returns 2 matches
Patient?family=Smi* returns 0 matches
Patient?family=Smith returns 1 match

It would be useful to warn user when providing default search responses.

Logged on GitHub along with a quick fix.

PDS FHIR API Access and a compatibility question
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I’ve raised an internal ticket to look at this. We’ll aim to keep the github issue updated

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NHS API Management team let me know that this fault has been added to the backlog as ticket SPINEDEM-1023 but it’s not expected to be resolved in the immediate future.