Healthy Child Record Standard
The PRSB has produced a standard for child health records to support the Healthy Child Programme and its prevention agenda. This innovative standard helps everyone involved in caring for children to share information using standardised paperless digital records. It aims to streamline the sharing of critical health information, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and quality of care for children across various health services.
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Current release
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.
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About this standard
The Healthy Child Record Standard outlines what information on screening tests, immunisations, and developmental milestones should be accessible to make sure that children receive appropriate care. The goal is that everyone involved in a child’s care, including parents, will in the future have secure access to a standardised set of paperless, digital child health records.Â
Whilst the focus has been the Healthy Child Programme, the information models developed may support recording for other purposes within a child health record. The standard also provides a foundation for digital personal child health records, using new infrastructure and messaging to provide interoperability for digital personal child health records (DPCHR). The aim being to supplement or replace paper Redbooks, making it easier for families to hold online records for their children and access them via smartphones, laptops and tablets.