e-Referral Service (e-RS) - FHIR API
Create paperless referrals from primary to secondary care and receive referrals, Clinical Referral Information (CRI) and attachments from the NHS e-Referral Service, as an HL7 FHIR API. OpenAPI harvested verbatim (38 paths).
e-Referral Service (e-RS) - FHIR API is one of 10 APIs that NHS England publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include FHIR, Referrals, and e-RS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 40 operations across 38 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 0.0.1.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://sandbox.api.service.nhs.uk/referrals/FHIR, https://int.api.service.nhs.uk/referrals/FHIR, https://api.service.nhs.uk/referrals/FHIR.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
e-Referral Service (e-RS) - FHIR API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).
Paths & Operations 40
Across 38 paths, the API surfaces 40 operations — 17 GET, 1 HEAD, 21 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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