National Cervical Screening Summary

The Screening History Summary API (Application Programming Interface) is an information service which allows authorised healthcare applications to search for and obtain a cervical screening history. This summary includes patient demographic data, previous screening results, pathway status and next expected events (ie next due screening date, follow-up due date).  The API is intended to enable timely, secure and audited access to screening information for Primary and Community screen-takers, colposcopy practitioners, health professionals involved with cervical cancer treatment and participants (health consumers).  While the initial focus of the API is on cervical screening programme participation, it is intended that its scope will broaden in future to support enquiries about participation in other national screening programmes.

Service description

Service description

The initial version of the API lets other systems or applications search for Cervical Screening History Summaries by NHI. A Screening History Summary combines participation data from the National Cervical Screening Programme Register (screening programme enrolment status and next action, etc) and screening history such as cytology test results and other relevant lab test records.  As a FHIR API, screening summaries are returned as PDF/HTML documents attached to FHIR R4B Document Reference resource instances.  A user of this API retrieves a screening summary by doing a FHIR search operation on the Document Reference REST resource space.  API users are expected to parse the search set Bundle returned by the FHIR search operation as it may contain special match outcome messages in addition to the Document Reference and an included Patient instance for the matching screening summary. 

Refer to the FHIR implementation guide for full details of the service.