PRSB Standards

This page tracks PRSB as a health and care record-content standards body and maps the standards families that are relevant to InterSystems healthcare tooling. Use PRSB Core Information Standard (PRSB CIS) for the specific HealthShare conformance evidence.

What PRSB Publishes

PRSB is the Professional Record Standards Body, an independent UK standards body for health and care record content. Its standards define what information should be recorded and shared so professionals, people, and systems have consistent information available at the point of care.

PRSB standards are content standards. They sit alongside transport, API, terminology, security, and assurance standards such as HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, SNOMED CT, GP Connect, Spine, ITK, MESH, DICOM, IHE profiles, and local information-governance controls. PRSB material treats FHIR-based technical specifications and APIs as implementation routes for structured exchange rather than as substitutes for the record-content standard itself.

Several PRSB standards pages now carry a transition note that ownership and management moved to NHS England from 1 January 2026, with standards available under the Open Government Licence 3.0 and ongoing feedback routed through the NHS England standards-assurance channel. PRSB support material still describes the support and standards-release route through the NHS Standards Directory.

Funding and Stewardship Caveat

PRSB member and CISS transition statements say PRSB's standards-engagement and maintenance work had been primarily funded by NHS England and that the NHS England Core Information Standards Service contract finishes at the end of its term in December 2025, as NHS England establishes a new operating model for developing and maintaining standards.

This is an organisational stewardship and future-maintenance caveat. It does not mean that existing PRSB standards are withdrawn, that published PRSB conformance rows are invalid, or that InterSystems Healthshare's current CIS Version 2 Level 2 register entry should be downgraded. PRSB says it will continue to develop professional record standards, support implementation, and offer supplier conformance assessments through its Standards Partnership Scheme.

Digital Health subsequently reported that PRSB would relaunch in 2026 with a revised, more market-supported funding model involving suppliers that benefit from standards and data-quality work. Treat the PRSB operating model as a live governance issue and recheck PRSB, NHS England, and NHS Standards Directory pages before relying on future PRSB release ownership or conformance-process assumptions.

The broader NHS England / DHSC standards stance remains standards-led rather than standards-withdrawal. Use NHS Standards Directory and DHSC Standards Direction for the wider governance and standards-directory map across FHIR, GP Connect, MESH, PDS/events, terminology, medicines, clinical safety, transfer-of-care, shared-record content, imaging, and diagnostics.

Standards Family Map

PRSB family	Standards and guidance included	Where it applies	InterSystems relevance	Evidence boundary
Shared care records and shared-record views	Core Information Standard, care homes view, and local-authority information.	Shared care records, integrated care records, longitudinal records, social-care views, care-home views, and role-based direct-care access.	Most directly relevant to HealthShare Unified Care Record and HealthShare Clinical Viewer; also relevant to HealthShare EMPI, IRIS for Health, FHIR Services, and Health Connect where local implementations model, exchange, or display shared-record content.	PRSB independently lists only InterSystems Healthshare for Core Information Standard Version 2, Level 2 conformance. That listing does not establish conformance for every HealthShare deployment or adjacent InterSystems product.
Transfer of care, referrals, and handover	eDischarge, emergency care discharge, mental-health discharge, outpatient letter, clinical referral, 111 referral, ambulance handover, and care-home-to-hospital transfer.	Acute, community, mental-health, outpatient, urgent-care, ambulance, GP, and care-home workflows.	Relevant to Health Connect, IRIS for Health, FHIR Services, and HealthShare where documents, messages, FHIR resources, or integration flows carry structured transfer-of-care information.	This is standards applicability, not proof that a named InterSystems deployment implements a given transfer standard.
Person-authored, personalised, and care-planning information	About Me, Personalised Care and Support Plan, Palliative and End of Life Care, Social Prescribing, Shared Decision Making, and Nursing Care Needs.	Personal records, shared care planning, end-of-life care, social prescribing, care-plan workflows, and patient-facing services.	Relevant to HealthShare Unified Care Record, Personal Community, Care Community, FHIR repositories, and care-plan workflows when local programmes need structured personal and care-planning content.	Relevance depends on configured content model, workflow scope, consent, and local implementation evidence.
Life-stage, specialty, and pathway information	Maternity, Healthy Child, obstetric anaesthetic, community pharmacy, diabetes, epilepsy, wound care, and NHS Health Check.	Specialty pathways and life-stage records, including children, maternity, pharmacy, long-term-condition, and prevention contexts.	Relevant to InterSystems tooling where a deployment captures, transforms, or presents domain-specific content in these pathways.	A PRSB pathway standard should not be treated as evidence of a named InterSystems module without a product, conformance, or customer source.
Cross-cutting metadata and implementation guidance	Provenance, document-naming guidance, standards support, and conformance / Quality Mark process.	Source attribution, auditability, document labelling, supplier assessment, and procurement due diligence.	Relevant across HealthShare, Health Connect, IRIS for Health, and FHIR Services where information provenance, structured content, or standards assurance is in scope.	Conformance process guidance is not itself product conformance; pair product claims with a PRSB register row or certificate.

InterSystems Product Relevance

Product or capability	PRSB relevance	Current wiki treatment
HealthShare Unified Care Record and Clinical Viewer	Strongest fit for shared-care-record content, direct-care views, and PRSB CIS conformance evidence.	PRSB-backed conformance is tracked through the CIS child page and HealthShare pages.
HealthShare EMPI and Provider Directory	Supports identity and provider context around shared-record views but is not itself a PRSB record-content conformance claim.	Treat as supporting infrastructure unless a PRSB or customer source maps it to a named standard.
Health Connect	Relevant to transfer, referral, discharge, document, and FHIR/API implementation flows.	Treat as an integration implementation route, not a PRSB conformance claim.
IRIS for Health and FHIR Services	Relevant where PRSB content is represented, transformed, validated, stored, or exposed through FHIR resources, APIs, or repositories.	Treat as technical enablement unless product documentation or conformance evidence names a standard.
Personal Community and Care Community	Relevant to About Me, personalised-care, shared-decision, care-plan, and patient-facing content.	Treat as applicability only until implementation evidence maps local content to a PRSB standard.

Confirmed InterSystems Evidence

PRSB lists InterSystems Healthshare as Core Information Standard Version 2, Level 2 conformant, valid until 17.06.2028.

InterSystems separately states that HealthShare 2024.1 achieved PRSB Core Information Standard Level 2 conformance and that PRSB validation included platform support for GP Connect, FHIR, HL7 v2, DICOM, and IHE profiles.

No current PRSB source in this pass was found that names InterSystems IRIS for Health, InterSystems Health Connect, InterSystems FHIR Services, HealthShare Personal Community, or HealthShare Care Community as PRSB-conformant products. PRSB's conformant-partner pages should be read product-by-product because similarly named suppliers are not necessarily InterSystems products.

Defence Healthcare Context

PRSB lists Defence Medical Services as a member. The PRSB DMS member page describes DMS as including the Navy Medical Service, Army Medical Service, Royal Air Force Medical Service, and HQ DMS Group, and says DMS provides primary healthcare, dental care, rehabilitation, occupational medicine, community mental healthcare, and specialist medical care to UK Armed Forces personnel.

This is membership and stakeholder evidence, not evidence of a defence-specific PRSB standard or PRSB conformance by Programme CORTISONE. Use Programme CORTISONE / UK Defence Healthcare for the MOD programme and InterSystems evidence boundary.

Follow-up Evidence

PRSB certificate or detailed validation scope if publicly available.
Customer-side evidence showing how PRSB-conformant information is implemented in named shared-care-record deployments.
Product documentation that maps Health Connect, IRIS for Health, FHIR Services, Personal Community, or Care Community to a named PRSB standard.
Public evidence that maps specific PRSB standards to named Defence Medical Services or Programme CORTISONE implementations, if any exists.