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.

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Viola Pastorino

Junior Programme Manager, Health and Care Team, techUK

Viola Pastorino is a policy, governance, and strategic communication specialist.

She joined techUK as the Junior Programme Manager in the Health and Care Team in April 2024.

She has obtained a Bachelor of Sciences in Governance, Economics, and Development from Leiden University, and a Master's programme in Strategic Communications at King's College London. Her academic background, leading up to a dissertation on AI policy influence and hands-on campaign development, is complemented by practical experience in international PR and grassroots project management.

She is skilled in qualitative and quantitative analysis and comfortable communicating findings to varying stakeholders. Above all, she is deeply passionate about the intersection of technology and government, especially how technology and global discourse shape one another, the processes that lead to belief polarisation and radicalisation of communities, and crafting strategic narratives that steer public discourse.

Outside of work she loves reading, live music light operation, and diving.

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