# Delete a patient

Canonical page: https://docs.ovok.com/api/signals-api---patients/delete-a-patient

`DELETE /v1/signals/api/patient/{id}`

Deletes the patient with its triggers, alerts, episodes and readings. This can't be undone through the API.

### Through ovok

- **Who can call it:** Manager apps, and users whose access policy grants the capabilities.
- **Capabilities, all required:** `signals_patients:delete`. Project admins have every capability; client applications get no admin bypass.
- If your access covers only some patients (anyone but project admins, manager or submitter apps, and anyone whose Patient access has no criteria), the patient must be one you can delete. A patient is named by its Signals id, or by its Medplum Patient id where Signals takes a `refId`; ovok asks Signals which patient a Signals id is.