The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) and NHS England (NHSE) recognise and value the significant contributions of clinicians, professionals, people, and key health and care stakeholders from across the country in supporting the development of care record standards over the past four years. This expertise and commitment have been instrumental in advancing the use of these standards to improve care, with the CISS contract, established at the start of 2022, serving as a key enabler of this progress.

NHS England is establishing a new operating model for developing and maintaining standards that will build on these strong foundations. As this transition takes place, the contract that NHS England holds with PRSB will be finishing at the end of its term in December 2025.

PRSB will continue to develop professional record standards and support widespread implementation, working with UK health and care organisations, system suppliers, clinical professionals, care professionals, patients, and the public. We will continue to offer standards conformance assessments to IT suppliers through our Standards Partnership Scheme.

Our work will support the development of high-quality standardised data and interoperability for the benefit of direct care, as well as improving data required for research, audit, clinical trials and artificial intelligence.

We will continue to collaborate with NHSE, Department of Health and Social Care and other national and international organisations that develop health and care information specifications. Our community remains committed to contributing constructively to major transformative developments in health and care data. PRSB is part of the Building Information Standards framework that NHS England owns, through which NHS England and other organisations in the Health domain can publish initiatives aligned with NHS England’s national data strategy.

NHS England has set out a ten-year vision that places a strong focus on delivering a Single Patient Record. Achieving this vision will depend on the continued development and adoption of robust, nationally agreed standards underpinned by clinical, social care, patient, and service user input. These standards will be central to enabling digital transformation across health and care, and clinical and professional engagement will be more vital than ever. NHS England is already working to develop this new model and is committed to ensuring it reflects the needs and insights of the clinical and professional communities that use and shape these standards.

Over the coming months, NHS England will provide more information on this work and how people may get involved and help shape the future of standards in health and care. We want to thank our members and partners for their invaluable contributions to this work so far. Both NHS England and PRSB look forward to collaborating with you in the future.

If you have any questions for NHS England or PRSB about this information, please email us at info@theprsb.org, and we will respond.