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Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) API

Overview

You interact with MESH by making calls to this API from your application. With the API, you can:

  • check the number of messages in your inbox
  • send a message, or a larger message as series of chunks
  • download a message, or a larger message which was sent to you as a series of chunks
  • acknowledge the successful download of a message, which removes it from your inbox
  • get the identifiers of messages in your inbox that are ready for download
  • track the status of messages that you sent from your outbox
  • look up the mailbox of an organisation you want to send data to
  • validate your mailbox every 24 hours to let Spine know it's still active

Documentation

Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) API documentation

Endpoint

https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/api-catalogue/message-exchange-for-social-care-and-health-api

Contact

https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/help-and-support