This is an information standard commissioned by NHS England from the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) with the intent to establish consistency in information capture regarding social prescribing. Social prescribing helps people to stay well for longer, and is supported by the Government’s loneliness strategy, A connected society: A strategy for tackling loneliness (2018). Social prescribing in the community allows local agencies to refer individuals to link workers, who work with the individual, focusing on ‘what matters to me’ and connecting them with local groups and services. The NHS Long Term Plan commits that personalised care will become “business as usual” for the NHS and for 2.5 million people to benefit by 2023/24. ‘Social prescribing and community based support’ is one of the six components which make up this model and NHS England’s Comprehensive Model of Universal Personalised Care details how this will be achieved, with a target of over 900,000 people being referred to social prescribing schemes by 2023/24. The first version of this information standard is to mandate the use of the PRSB Social Prescribing standard (version 1.0) in appropriate care settings, to achieve consistency of information capture relating to social prescribing activities. This will prepare care providers to be able to share relevant information which will be facilitated through a future version of this standard.