Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH) common issues in the Path to Live environments

In Live, users will need to contact the National Service Desk to request a MESH Mailbox.

In the Path to Live (PtL) environments, contact [email protected] with the following information:

• required Path to Live environment
• mailbox name (no special characters)
• testing ODS code
• organisation name
• contact name
• contact telephone number
• contact email
• your organisation name

If you have not got test organisation in the PTL environments please contact our test data team on [email protected] to arrange for one to be assigned to you.

In addition, If intending to use MESH API, please provide a CSR with common name filed set to you desired FQDN. All other fields can be blank . The email field must be blank. 

Please note there are restrictions on using the MESH client or API over the internet. This requires a SHA2 keystore and the source address must be a UK IP address.

You can install the MESH Client from the MESH service page.

The following information may be useful to user connecting via the MESH API

Shared Key is available by contacting the iTOC support desk

Useful website for obtaining HMAC-256 hashes here

Useful website for obtaining a GUID generator here

MESH API guidance is available here