Patient Core Records API

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

Sequence

1. Provider update with notification

The sequence below highlights the flow of events in a scenario where an patient record has been updated and subscribers are notified of this update. They would then use the API to retrieve the data from the provider.

pcrapi1-sequence

2. Send update to record to a central service

This sequence will be followed when an update is to be sent to a central repository (and/or) another system.

sys-post-central-sequence

3. Retrieve data from the central repository

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