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| Title | Type | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Directory Service (SDS) | Page | The Spine Directory Service provides details of organisations, people and systems registered with the Spine |
| Spine Endpoints | Page | SDS allows details of registered system endpoints to be looked up |
| Endpoint Lookup Example - Spine FHIR Endpoints | Page | Worked example of looking up a Spine endpoint from SDS for Spine FHIR APIs |
| Endpoint Lookup Example - SSP | Page | Worked example of looking up a Spine endpoint from SDS for calls brokered through SSP |
| Overview | Design & Build | Page | Describes the steps required to design & build an API using the profiles described in Explore |
| GP Connect Integration Example | Page | Illustration of the use of the GP Connect API showing all interactions required - both with Spine services and GP Connect endpoint API calls. |
| Visitors and Migrants Integration Example | Page | Illustration of the use of the Visitors and Migrants API showing all interactions required with Spine services. |
| Personal Demographic Service | Page | Overview of the role of the Personal Demographic Services (PDS) and ways of accessing it. |
| Authenticating End-Users of APIs | Page | Requirements for how users should be authenticated when accessing Spine APIs. |
| Authorising Access to APIs | Page | Details of the approached for authorising API access. |
| Spine Services and Interaction IDs | Page | Details of how system-to-system authorisation is managed through the use of Interaction IDs for Services. |
| Access Tokens and Audit (JWT) | Page | Overview of how authorisation information is used and passed in APIs for audit and provenance. |
| Role Based Access Controls | Page | Details of the national Role Based Access Control model. |
| Using Scopes for Authorisation | Page | Use of Scopes in Authorisation Requests and links to the national RBAC model. |
| System-to-System Trust (PKI) | Page | Details of how system-to-system trust is managed through the Spine PKI. |
| Spine Secure Proxy Implementation Guide | Page | Technical specification for the Spine Secure Proxy (SSP). |
| Spine Secure Proxy | Page | Overview of the role of the Spine Secure Proxy (SSP) to broker calls to other health and social care systems. |
| Registering a provider endpoint | Page | Requirements for systems wanting to register an API endpoint for consumers to call through the SSP |
| System Topologies | Page | Overview of the different types of deployment topologies for brokering API calls through the SSP |