NHSDigital/e-referrals-service-api
Nov 2025 – Jan 2026
3 Months active
Languages Used
JSONYAMLJavaScriptPython
Technical Skills
API DocumentationHealthcare ITOpenAPI SpecificationAPI DevelopmentData ModelingSchema Design
Nicole Balmer
PROFILE
Nicole Balmer
Nicole Balmer contributed to the NHSDigital/e-referrals-service-api repository, focusing on enhancing referral management workflows in healthcare IT. Over three months, she delivered features such as referral cancellation and robust versioning for Advice and Guidance worklists, using Python, JSON, and YAML. Nicole improved schema integrity by enforcing required fields and expanded authorization logic to cover new cancellation scenarios, reducing integration friction and supporting auditability. Her work included updating OpenAPI documentation and refining schema definitions to align with evolving data models. These changes strengthened data quality, interoperability, and developer experience, demonstrating depth in API development, specification, and backend engineering practices.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
80%Features
Repository Contributions
6Total
Bugs
1
Commits
6
Features
4
Lines of code
1,358
Activity Months3
Your Network
210 people
Work History
January 2026
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for NHSDigital/e-referrals-service-api focusing on key features delivered, bugs fixed, and the overall impact on data integrity, interoperability, and business value. Highlights include schema integrity hardening, enhanced cancellation workflows with broader authorization coverage, and clearer provider actions in the YAML spec. These changes improved data quality, reduced risk of invalid requests, expanded test coverage, and clarified integration expectations for service providers.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for NHSDigital/e-referrals-service-api focusing on key features delivered, bugs fixed, and the overall impact on data integrity, interoperability, and business value. Highlights include schema integrity hardening, enhanced cancellation workflows with broader authorization coverage, and clearer provider actions in the YAML spec. These changes improved data quality, reduced risk of invalid requests, expanded test coverage, and clarified integration expectations for service providers.
January 2026
December 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month: 2025-12 — Focused on delivering versioning for Advice and Guidance worklists in the e-referrals API, with targeted schema and response updates to enable robust request-tracking and auditability. This work enhances data integrity and supports future analytics and compliance requirements.
December 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month: 2025-12 — Focused on delivering versioning for Advice and Guidance worklists in the e-referrals API, with targeted schema and response updates to enable robust request-tracking and auditability. This work enhances data integrity and supports future analytics and compliance requirements.
November 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Key API enhancement for e-referrals-service-api enabling cancellation of referrals with improved developer experience. Updates include new actions for cancel referral, OpenAPI docs alignment, and new JSON mock responses and request structures to cover multiple cancellation scenarios. These changes reduce integration friction and support end-to-end referral lifecycle management.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025: Key API enhancement for e-referrals-service-api enabling cancellation of referrals with improved developer experience. Updates include new actions for cancel referral, OpenAPI docs alignment, and new JSON mock responses and request structures to cover multiple cancellation scenarios. These changes reduce integration friction and support end-to-end referral lifecycle management.
November 2025
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Quality Metrics
Correctness96.6%
Maintainability93.4%
Architecture96.6%
Performance93.4%
AI Usage23.4%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
JSONJavaScriptPythonYAML
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI DocumentationAPI developmentAPI specificationData ModelingFHIR standardsHealthcare ITOpenAPI SpecificationPythonSchema Designbackend developmentdocumentationtesting
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