Service Search (Directory of Healthcare Services) API
Search the national Directory of Healthcare Services for NHS organisations, services and their attributes. OpenAPI harvested verbatim.
Service Search (Directory of Healthcare Services) 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 Directory, Service Search, and Reference Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version Computed and injected at build time by `scripts/set_version.py`.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://sandbox.api.service.nhs.uk/service-search-api, https://int.api.service.nhs.uk/service-search-api, https://api.service.nhs.uk/service-search-api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Service Search (Directory of Healthcare Services) API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (OAuth_Token).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Organisation (32 properties), SearchResults (4 properties), SearchResult (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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