---
title: "Extract Carers for a Patient"
canonical: "https://wiki.patientsknowbest.com/space/api/4960288844/Extract%20Carers%20for%20a%20Patient"
format: markdown
---
- [What](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4960288844/Extract+Carers+for+a+Patient#What)
- [Prerequisites](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4960288844/Extract+Carers+for+a+Patient#Prerequisites)
- [How to](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4960288844/Extract+Carers+for+a+Patient#How-to)
- [Example](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4960288844/Extract+Carers+for+a+Patient#Example)

## What

Enables you to pull a list of Consent and Patient resources for your patients' carers. 

## Prerequisites

- You must have a national ID (NHS number) for the patient.  If you don’t already have an identifier, see the [Patient demographic retrieval](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4504551428) page.
- You must have [access to the data in the patient’s PKB record](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4491968591).
  - The patient’s PKB record must be in your PKB organisation.
  - You must have access to overlapping privacy labels with the patient’s carers for them to be returned
- [Obtain an access token to the Aggregated FHIR endpoint](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4513202208).

## How to

- With a valid token, call the $carers custom operation on the Consent resource, using the patient’s identifier (with the corresponding system) as a query parameter.
  - *National ID Example: *https://aggregated-fhir.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/Consent/$carers?patient:Patient.identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number%7C**1234567**
- A FHIR bundle is returned to you in json format with a Consent resource and Patient resource for each of the patient’s carers.
  - The Consent resource represents the carer’s relationship with the patient and contains the privacy labels that the carers has access to, where the organisation has access to these privacy labels too. If the carer has access to more privacy labels than the team, the additional privacy labels are not included in the Consent resource.
  - The Patient resource represents the carer. It contains the following fields: name, address, date of birth, gender, email address, telephone numbers, registration status, deceased flag, PKB public ID

## **Example**

Here’s an example response for retrieving the carers for a patient: 

<span style="color: #36b37e">**GET**</span>** **[https://aggregated-fhir.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/Consent/$carers?patient:Patient.identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number%7C6733905604](https://aggregated-fhir.sandbox.patientsknowbest.com/fhir/Consent/$carers?patient:Patient.identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number%7C6733905604) 

```
{
    "resourceType": "Bundle",
    "type": "searchset",
    "total": 4,
    "entry": [
        {
            "link": [
                {
                    "relation": "self",
                    "url": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Consent/a86c2a57-ffc5-3031-8627-7129c3c5b1b8"
                }
            ],
            "fullUrl": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Consent/a86c2a57-ffc5-3031-8627-7129c3c5b1b8",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "Consent",
                "id": "a86c2a57-ffc5-3031-8627-7129c3c5b1b8",
                "meta": {
                    "extension": [
                        {
                            "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/version-persisted",
                            "valueDateTime": "2025-08-20T11:36:13.211+00:00"
                        },
                        {
                            "url": "ex:createdAt",
                            "valueInstant": "2025-08-20T11:36:13.588147Z"
                        }
                    ],
                    "versionId": "6086665",
                    "lastUpdated": "2025-08-20T11:40:14.165487Z"
                },
                "extension": [
                    {
                        "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/only-professionals-may-edit",
                        "valueBoolean": false
                    }
                ],
                "identifier": [
                    {
                        "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/id/patientconsent-legacy-identifier",
                        "value": "3265840"
                    }
                ],
                "status": "active",
                "scope": {
                    "coding": [
                        {
                            "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/consentscope",
                            "code": "patient-privacy"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "category": [
                    {
                        "coding": [
                            {
                                "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/consent-category",
                                "code": "PATIENTCONSENT"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "patient": {
                    "reference": "Patient/66f11f66-f780-3e0b-ae65-315a7b6f9252"
                },
                "dateTime": "2025-08-20T11:36:12.478+00:00",
                "policy": [
                    {
                        "authority": "http://www.patientsknowbest.com"
                    }
                ],
                "provision": {
                    "type": "permit",
                    "actor": [
                        {
                            "role": {
                                "coding": [
                                    {
                                        "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode",
                                        "code": "CONSENTER"
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            "reference": {
                                "reference": "Patient/f022dbe3-e8c4-3968-84f6-b3b575e1d646"
                            }
                        }
                    ],
                    "securityLabel": [
                        {
                            "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/privacy-label",
                            "code": "SOCIAL_CARE"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "match"
            }
        },
        {
            "link": [
                {
                    "relation": "self",
                    "url": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Consent/3c3d0dc4-8d8c-383d-b585-d3fef76c2fe0"
                }
            ],
            "fullUrl": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Consent/3c3d0dc4-8d8c-383d-b585-d3fef76c2fe0",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "Consent",
                "id": "3c3d0dc4-8d8c-383d-b585-d3fef76c2fe0",
                "meta": {
                    "extension": [
                        {
                            "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/version-persisted",
                            "valueDateTime": "2025-08-20T11:34:29.064+00:00"
                        },
                        {
                            "url": "ex:createdAt",
                            "valueInstant": "2025-08-20T11:34:30.081541Z"
                        }
                    ],
                    "versionId": "6086660",
                    "lastUpdated": "2025-08-20T11:34:30.081541Z"
                },
                "extension": [
                    {
                        "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/only-professionals-may-edit",
                        "valueBoolean": false
                    }
                ],
                "identifier": [
                    {
                        "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/id/patientconsent-legacy-identifier",
                        "value": "3265838"
                    }
                ],
                "status": "active",
                "scope": {
                    "coding": [
                        {
                            "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/consentscope",
                            "code": "patient-privacy"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "category": [
                    {
                        "coding": [
                            {
                                "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/consent-category",
                                "code": "PATIENTCONSENT"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "patient": {
                    "reference": "Patient/66f11f66-f780-3e0b-ae65-315a7b6f9252"
                },
                "dateTime": "2025-08-20T11:34:28.619+00:00",
                "policy": [
                    {
                        "authority": "http://www.patientsknowbest.com"
                    }
                ],
                "provision": {
                    "type": "permit",
                    "actor": [
                        {
                            "role": {
                                "coding": [
                                    {
                                        "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-RoleCode",
                                        "code": "CONSENTER"
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            "reference": {
                                "reference": "Patient/f6f7022d-15ba-3ec1-859b-e0afd7329e69"
                            }
                        }
                    ],
                    "securityLabel": [
                        {
                            "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/privacy-label",
                            "code": "GENERAL_HEALTH"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "match"
            }
        },
        {
            "link": [
                {
                    "relation": "self",
                    "url": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Patient/f022dbe3-e8c4-3968-84f6-b3b575e1d646"
                }
            ],
            "fullUrl": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Patient/f022dbe3-e8c4-3968-84f6-b3b575e1d646",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "Patient",
                "id": "f022dbe3-e8c4-3968-84f6-b3b575e1d646",
                "meta": {
                    "versionId": "6086663"
                },
                "extension": [
                    {
                        "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/status",
                        "valueString": "EMAIL_CONFIRMED"
                    }
                ],
                "identifier": [
                    {
                        "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/id/public-id",
                        "value": "f7a7f6b0-413c-4ada-824b-e0fbbc173c56"
                    }
                ],
                "name": [
                    {
                        "family": "James",
                        "given": [
                            "Stephen"
                        ],
                        "prefix": [
                            "Mr"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "telecom": [
                    {
                        "system": "email",
                        "value": "stephen.james@pkbtest.com",
                        "rank": 1
                    }
                ],
                "gender": "unknown",
                "birthDate": "1990-01-01",
                "address": [
                    {
                        "line": [
                            "123 Test Street"
                        ],
                        "city": "Test City",
                        "state": "Test County",
                        "postalCode": "TT44TTq",
                        "country": "GB-ENG"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "include"
            }
        },
        {
            "link": [
                {
                    "relation": "self",
                    "url": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Patient/f6f7022d-15ba-3ec1-859b-e0afd7329e69"
                }
            ],
            "fullUrl": "https://rcaggregated.fhir-api.rc.pkb.io/Patient/f6f7022d-15ba-3ec1-859b-e0afd7329e69",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "Patient",
                "id": "f6f7022d-15ba-3ec1-859b-e0afd7329e69",
                "meta": {
                    "versionId": "6086659"
                },
                "extension": [
                    {
                        "url": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/structuredefinition/status",
                        "valueString": "EMAIL_CONFIRMED"
                    }
                ],
                "identifier": [
                    {
                        "system": "http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/id/public-id",
                        "value": "57de7528-dd0f-46de-9bae-3abe1880303f"
                    }
                ],
                "name": [
                    {
                        "family": "Jackson",
                        "given": [
                            "Stephanie"
                        ],
                        "prefix": [
                            "Miss"
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "telecom": [
                    {
                        "system": "email",
                        "value": "stephanie.jackson@pkbtest.com",
                        "rank": 1
                    }
                ],
                "gender": "unknown",
                "birthDate": "1990-01-01",
                "address": [
                    {
                        "line": [
                            "123 Test Road"
                        ],
                        "city": "Test City",
                        "state": "Test County",
                        "postalCode": "TT44TT",
                        "country": "GB-ENG"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "include"
            }
        }
    ]
}
```