Single patient records: March 2026 roundtables insights and summary
The Single Patient Record (SPR) is one of the most impactful digital programmes the NHS has launched in recent years. By unifying patient data across care settings, it has the potential to reshape how care is coordinated, how research is enabled, and how suppliers integrate with the NHS. For our members, the design choices being made now will define the interoperability landscape for years to come.
Across March, techUK convened four roundtable workshops with NHS England's SPR team, bringing together a broad cross-section of suppliers to engage directly on the programme's emerging shape. The series, which has drawn strong demand and a sustained waitlist, reflects both the appetite of industry to contribute and the SPR team's clarity of purpose in seeking that input early. Throughout the sessions, the SPR team engaged openly, shared draft thinking transparently, and treated supplier challenges as a genuine input into design.
techUK will continue to convene this series as the SPR moves from alpha into private beta, ensuring industry insight shapes a programme designed to deliver lasting value for patients, clinicians, and the wider NHS.
