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NHS Spine
The NHS Spine is the central infrastructure of the English NHS that holds the Personal Demographics Service (the NHS number index), the Summary Care Record and the messaging services between systems.
Almost every NHS integration starts by looking a patient up on the Spine by NHS number.
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