Oliver Lake, chief government of the Skilled Document Requirements Physique (Credit score: PRSB)
Unique: The Skilled Data Requirements Physique (PRSB) will relaunch in 2026 with a revised funding mannequin, after NHS England ceased its core funding this month.
In September 2025, Digital Well being Information realized that the contract for the PRSB, a non-profit physique devoted to enhancing well being information, wouldn’t be renewed when it ends in December 2025 as a result of NHSE intends to develop and keep medical requirements in-house.
On the time, the PRSB wrote to the Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) to see if it could be keen to fund the organisation going ahead.
Oliver Lake, chief government of the PRSB, confirmed to Digital Well being Information on 5 December 2025 that the physique “haven’t given up on looking for authorities sources of funding”.
Nevertheless, he stated the PRSB is actively transferring in the direction of a “extra market-supported mannequin” involving funding from NHS know-how suppliers who immediately profit from requirements and knowledge high quality work.
“What we realised is that truly there’s different individuals that may profit from our work, specifically the suppliers out there who’re desirous to get issues finished and might’t get them finished quick sufficient,” Lake stated.
The PRSB works with greater than 90 member organisations, together with royal faculties, scientific societies and regulators, which don’t pay charges, in addition to greater than 60 provider companions, together with main digital affected person report suppliers resembling Epic and InterSystems, which pay for conformance testing and requirements adoption.
Its 2026 it should introduce a programme of ‘accelerators’, designed to carry collectively suppliers, professionals and the NHS to work collaboratively on advanced challenges and to construct consensus utilizing a sturdy proof base.
An accelerator centered on the MedTech ecosystem will start in January 2026, with a second accelerator specializing in AI and ambient voice applied sciences deliberate for later within the 12 months, Lake confirmed.
“With seismic modifications already taking place—resembling using ambient voice know-how and big funding into the Well being Information Analysis Service —PRSB’s energy is in bringing collectively suppliers, professionals, and the NHS to sort out knowledge challenges,
“We’re taking the chance to leverage our networks and experience for the advantage of the UK well being and care sector.
“We’re very a lot open for enterprise and need to encourage any suppliers or organisations who care about knowledge to strategy us and see how we will help them. Our work would be the cornerstone of success for all digital methods,” Lake stated.
He added that he would “prefer to see funding made within the knowledge high quality agenda” of the Well being Information Analysis Service.
Professor Reecha Sofat, chair of PRSB, stated: “Typically the information required for care processes is incomplete and isn’t routinely semantically interoperable.
“Throughout the NHS and social care, duplicative knowledge assortment processes are commonplace —as a result of the information within the affected person report will not be adequate.
“Moreover, medical trials, illness registries and researchers require further knowledge collections as a result of the medical report doesn’t seize industry-grade outcomes.
“AI and applied sciences resembling ambient scribes have to populate knowledge into the report in a standardised method—to guarantee that it may be saved and shared safely.”
Digital Well being Information contacted NHSE for remark.
