Patient Core Records API

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

Security

Authentication and Authorisation

All traffic using the API would need to go through NHS England API management platform which would provide the forwarding and also the authentication.

The types of security supported are user-restricted and application-restricted.

Application-restricted

Authentication and authorisation of the calling application.

User-restricted

Two types of users can access the user-restricted APIs:

healthcare workers - authenticated using NHS Care Identity Service 2 (NHS CIS2) patients - authenticated using NHS login

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