This presentation describes the UK's persistent identifier (PID) strategy and was part of the "National PID strategies: opportunities for collaboration and alignment" Birds of a Feather session at the RDA's 17th (virtual) Plenary. Jisc has been leading a PIDs for Open Access project, to develop and refine a national strategy and roadmap for persistent identifiers to enhance access to open research. This work has built on the 2019 report Developing a persistent identifier roadmap for open access to UK research, which recommended that the UK community explore the potential for a ‘multi-PID consortium’ to optimise access and adoption of the five priority PIDs (grants, people, outputs, organisations and projects) for open research. This programme has been overseen by a national stakeholder group which brought together institutions, sector bodies, funders, publishers, repository providers, research administrators, scholarly societies, and other sector groups. The next stage is to develop the business case for setting up the multi-PID consortium and establish the Research Identifier National Coordinating Council (RINCC). The RINCC will focus on governance and community accountability, while the consortium would be designed to maximise access to, and the utility of, priority PID services in the UK and in the international systems upon which UK research communication depends.