Is it possible to protect our test patients from modifications by others? Or get the test patients reloaded periodically (overnight?) We’re establishing a multi NHS Trust and Diagnostic system which involves several organisations using the same PDS test patients. We are finding our test patients a…

It’s been a frustration for a couple of years: [image] PDS API Patient search returns unexpected match Personal Demographics Service FHIR API Whilst the test data page says that the data are read-only, in reality they can be updated by users of the system and …

I should have checked that either you or @iminshall had raised this before. We originally noticed this issue around the old EDITESTPATIENTS (for pathology) and decided to create our own for genomics. Most of the test systems already had these EDITESTPATIENTS and we would have reused them (we are a…

I’m not sure it is possible to stop this happening. Other consumers should not be using your test data, but marshalling that is very hard. Reloading patients can’t be done globally, because state needs protecting. I’m not sure what processes are available for your circumstances, but I will ask arou…

Issue raised 3 years ago, but no resolution. Our approach for testing is to pull current state from PDS INT during initialisation of a regression test suite and then use that state to infer tests. For example, if 4123456789 has surname Smith, we expect to match Patient?name=Smith. This limits some …

You can use TDSSP to reload your own PDS packs into spine PTL. This will re-baseline the records to how they are defined in TDSSP, effectively negating any changes that might have been made outside of TDSSP.

[image] Nicholas_Hunt: TDSSP Setting up test data in our path to live environments - NHS England Digital

PDS Test Patient - Int environment Issues

Personal Demographics Service (PDS) Personal Demographics Service FHIR API

jakob 24 February 2026 22:11 6

Changes in INT messing up patients seems to be a common problem across services. GP Connect errors for integration testing

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PDS Test Patient - Int environment Issues

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