Social Prescribing Information Standard
Enables social prescribing support provision to be recorded, amended and maintained collaboratively between patients, link workers and health and care professionals.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Reference code
- DAPB4066 Amd 108/2021
- Publication date
- 16/01/2023
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
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- Applies to
- Social prescribing services
- General Practice
- Acute health services
- Mental health services
- Community services
- Social Care services
- Other Service Providers MAY conform to this information standard.
- Referrers to social prescribing services MAY conform to this standard.
- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
- Associated medias
Further guidance is published by the Professional Record Standards Body:
- Conformance date
- 31/03/2025
- Effective from
- 01/03/2023
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Care records
- Prescribing
- Referrals
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Social care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services, Adult Social Care
- Sponsor
Tim Straughan, Deputy Director of the Personalised Care Group, NHS England
- Senior Responsible Officer
David Bramley, Deputy Director, Personalised Care Group, NHS England
- Business Lead
- Jules Ford, Senior Lead, Personalised Care Group, NHS England\nMartin Orton, Senior Programme Manager, Prpfessional Record Standards Body (PRSB)
- Contributor
- Prpfessional Record Standards Body (PRSB)
- Approval date
- 25/08/2022
- Post Implementation review Date
- 31/03/2025
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Collaborating Organisations
No known endorsements.
More information
This is an information standard commissioned by NHS England from the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) with the intent to establish consistency in information capture regarding social prescribing. Social prescribing helps people to stay well for longer, and is supported by the Government’s loneliness strategy, A connected society: A strategy for tackling loneliness (2018). Social prescribing in the community allows local agencies to refer individuals to link workers, who work with the individual, focusing on ‘what matters to me’ and connecting them with local groups and services. The NHS Long Term Plan commits that personalised care will become “business as usual” for the NHS and for 2.5 million people to benefit by 2023/24. ‘Social prescribing and community based support’ is one of the six components which make up this model and NHS England’s Comprehensive Model of Universal Personalised Care details how this will be achieved, with a target of over 900,000 people being referred to social prescribing schemes by 2023/24. The first version of this information standard is to mandate the use of the PRSB Social Prescribing standard (version 1.0) in appropriate care settings, to achieve consistency of information capture relating to social prescribing activities. This will prepare care providers to be able to share relevant information which will be facilitated through a future version of this standard.
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