A message from our CEO, Oliver Lake
As we come to the end of 2025, I want to take a moment to thank all our members, partners and supporters for your commitment and collaboration over the past year. PRSB’s strength has always come from its community, and this year you have demonstrated again why a shared mission is so vital for the future of health and care data.
This has been a year of both challenge and opportunity. With NHS England’s core funding coming to an end, we have used this moment not to look inward, but to define a new direction for 2026. I am proud of the impact we have made together this year. Our work with clinicians, researchers, service users, suppliers, and national bodies has continued to raise the bar. We have delivered important standards and projects that directly support better care, including the Epilepsy Information Standard for NHS England, an Obstetric Anaesthetic Standard for the Obstetric Anaesthesia Association and a significant piece of research focused on the information gaps that impede child safeguarding for DHSC. These projects are only possible because of the expertise, commitment and often lived experience each of you bring.
2026 for us sets out a renewed mission focused on uniting the sector around quality, standardisation, and interoperability of health and care data. The scale of change underway in technology, AI, and the Health Data Research Service demands that we are an organisation that can collaborate, and lead with clarity and we are ready to do that.
As we move into the new year, our new programme of Accelerators will build on this foundation, bringing together suppliers, professionals, and the wider NHS community to address complex challenges with a shared evidence base. We are opening up new opportunities for industry and partners to work with us in shaping a truly interoperable data environment for the UK. Our aim is simple: to ensure that every organisation has access to trusted, consistent data that can be used confidently for care, planning, research, and innovation.
I want to personally thank you for your support throughout 2025. Your engagement, whether through expert groups, consultations, partnership activities, or on-the-ground implementation, continues to drive improvements in the safety and outcomes of care for people. I also want to thank my amazing colleagues here at PRSB, this has been a challenging year for us all, but we have all played our part and look to the future with excitement about what we can achieve.
I look forward to working with all of you in the year ahead!
Oliver Lake, Chief Executive
