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Community services are used by everyone. They are there to provide vital support and resources, and to improve our wellbeing. People need different kinds of help at different moments in their lives. A single organisation can’t help everyone. Instead each provides certain kinds of services to certain kinds of people. People don’t always know where to go for the right kind of help. All too often, people fall through the cracks. So councils and other public and voluntary sector organisations keep directories with information about what services are available and refer people to the right place. These referral providers help people work out where to go to get help. They give out printed resources, run call centres and websites, and make referrals. Keeping track of this information is hard work. Today, each referral provider does this themself. They constantly collect data about services, and manage it in their own directories. There are hundreds of directories in the UK sometimes as many as 10 in a local area They’re all trying to collect similar data at the same time in isolation from one another. That’s a massive duplication of effort and cost. This is a big problem for service commissioners at a local and national level, who need to understand what services already exist and how we might better meet people's needs. And it's also a big problem for people in the NHS who need trustworthy data for social prescribing. The good news is, we already have a solution for this. With Open Referral UK, we are building a future where it’s easy for anyone to find information about the services that are available to people in need in whatever way works best for them. The Open Referral UK data standard defines a language that any service directory can use to ‘talk’ to any other service directory so they can share data with each other, in real-time. This is called ‘interoperability’. That means referral providers can work together to share data about community services regardless of which information system they happen to use. This helps people in different contexts, using different tools, to see the same information. We all benefit when distributed systems share open standards. After all, that’s what made the internet into the World Wide Web. This will make it easier for people to find services that help them live happy, healthy lives. And it will even be easier for researchers, policy makers, funders and others in the public sector to understand what’s going on out there which will help us all make smarter decisions that improve the health of our communities. Open Referral UK is helping communities build this future. You can join us. Learn more at openreferraluk.org