GP Connect - Access Document

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.

Retrieve a document

Use case

Retrieve a document from a GP practice.

API specification

See GP Connect Access Document - FHIR API.

Interaction diagram

documents-get-patient-document-interaction-diagram

Request

File size limit

Documents up to 5MB can be retrieved using this interaction.

Payload response body

Provider systems MUST:

  • return a 200 OK HTTP status code to indicate successful execution of the operation
  • return a Binary resource conforming to the Binary resource definition
  • include the versionId of the current version of the Binary resource

Examples

See Retrieve a document.

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