Overview of the role of the Personal Demographic Service within GP Connect.

PDS tracing

GP Connect systems SHALL be capable of performing Personal Demographic Service (PDS) tracing of patients to obtain their NHS number, date of birth and current registered GP organisation.

Spine Core FHIR API Framework - Personal Demographics Service provides a summary of the role of PDS in the NHS Spine architecture, and describes three options for accessing it. Systems SHALL perform this tracing using one of the three options.