Details about the CheckCapacitySummary v1.5 SOAP method
Overview
CheckCapacitySummary allows a consumer to perform a fully-ranked (curated) search to find services that can provide appropriate care to meet a patient’s clinical need
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Request | A non-identifiable representation of a ‘clinical case’ |
| Response | A curated, ordered set of service results (valid requests should always return some results - see “Catch All Search” page) |
Search Logic
When a consumer posts a CheckCapacitySummary request, there is a fairly complex set of logic steps that are performed before a results set is- returned.
These steps can be thought of as a ‘filter pipeline’, with each step of the pipeline taking a broad results set and returning a more narrow results set. The pipeline process is largely transparent to the API consumer.
There are several different types of filters that are applied:
- Basic permissions - validate the XML, the account permissions and some initial parameters
- Service attribute filters - discount a large number of services based on distance, symptom group (SG), gender and GP surgery
- Fine filter - filter remaining services based on the other parameters and begin Gap processing
- Calculate display order - determine the order in which services return, based on ranking and other rules
This is explained in more detail in the “Search Logic” page.