Care Homes View of Shared Care Records
Improving information sharing between health and social care is critical to professionals who care for people and the health and wellbeing of people themselves. The care homes view is the information from health (primary, secondary or community care) that care home staff should see in a shared care record.
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From 01 January 2026, this standard will be owned and managed by NHS England and is made available for reuse or amendment under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL 3.0). A review of the ongoing requirement for this standard will be undertaken by NHS England. Details on this and any update to the standard will be published on the NHS Standards Directory. If you have any questions or feedback relating to this standard, please email: england.standards.assurance@nhs.net.
About this standard
The Care Homes View of Shared Care records is a guidance information model that provides a view of the PRSB’s Core Information Standard for staff working in care homes with and without nursing. It ensures that timely and relevant information about a patient’s care and treatment is accessible to staff working in care homes including registered professionals and unregistered persons. This guidance information model includes details about a person including their About me record, care plans, medications, hospital admission and discharge details, and current and previous diagnoses. This project supports NHS England’s interoperability efforts.
Benefits:
- Enhances communication between health and social care and continuity of care.
- Ensures timely access by care home staff to a person’s relevant information.
- Supports integrated care across health and social care settings.
Summary table
The Care Homes View of Shared Care Records operates by ensuring that relevant information from health and social care that residential and nursing homes need to see is recorded and shared in a structured format as part of shared care records. This facilitates seamless communication and continuity of care across different health and care settings.
Below is a summary table of the guidance information model:
| Section | Description | Conformance |
| Person demographics | Patient details and contact information. | Mandatory |
| GP practice | Details of the GP practice where the patient is registered. | Required |
| About me | Information that the person thinks it is important to share with professionals. | Required |
| Individual requirements | Individual requirements that a person has, e.g. communication, cultural, cognitive, mobility needs, and reasonable adjustments. | Required |
| Alerts | Any significant information meriting a specific and highly visible warning to any user. | Required |
| Legal information | Legal information captured relating to patient care, such as consent to sharing information, legal power of attorney, safeguarding issues, and mental capacity. | Required |
| Safeguarding | Any concerns in relation to safeguarding and is applicable to children and adults. | Required |
| Professional contacts | Current and historic details of health and care professionals, teams, or organisations involved in the care of the person. | Required |
| Personal contacts | Personal contacts (e.g., family, friends, relatives, etc.). | Required |
| Referral details | Current and historic referrals. | Required |
| Contacts with professionals | Details of the person’s contacts with services, their encounters. Includes outpatient appointments, home visits, hospital and outpatient attendances, out-of-hours GP visits, clinic appointments, social worker visits, etc. | Required |
| Admission details | Details of the patient’s admission and reason for admission. | Required |
| Discharge details | The details of the patient’s discharge including discharge destination. | Required |
| Future appointments | The details of any future appointments the person may have. | Required |
| Investigation results | Details of investigation results. | Required |
| Investigations requested | Details of investigations requested. | Required |
| Examination findings | Details of examinations performed by healthcare professionals. | Required |
| Assessments | Details of assessments that health or care professionals have completed. | Required |
| Risks | Risks to the person or others (from the person). | Required |
| Allergies and adverse reactions | The details of any known allergies, intolerances, or adverse reactions. | Required |
| Medications and medical devices | The details of and instructions for medications and medical equipment the patient is using. Includes changes in prescribed medications. | Required |
| Care and support plan | The personalised care and support plan agreed during conversation between the person and health and care professional. It includes their strengths, needs, goals, and actions and activities to achieve those goals along with progress and outcomes. | Required |
| Contingency plans | These describe what needs to be done and who to contact, should an individual’s health or other circumstances get worse. | Required |
| Additional support plans | This is the content of any additional plans which the person and/or care professional consider should be shared with others providing care and support. | Required |
| Palliative and end of life care | Information relating to palliative and end of life care. This is not an end-of-life or palliative care plan but contains information that would be found within that. | Required |
| Documents | Any additional documents relating to the person’s care, e.g., scan images, letters, or reports. | Required |