In response to the Health and Social Care Secretary’s speech at the Health Service Journal’s Digital Transformation Summit (24/2/22)
PRSB advisor Bernard Crump blogs in response to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcements for health and care at the Health Service Journal’s Digital Transformation Summit on the 24th February 2022. No one who is interested in improving health and care and the development of patient centred, safe and reliable services […]
Shared decision-making standard goes LIVE
Shared decision-making is at the heart of good care. In order to make good decisions about care and treatment, health and care professionals need time to discuss people’s needs and wishes, and people using services need information about their options and the time and support to decide what care decision is best for them. PRSB has […]
PRSB to exhibit at the HETT Show in September
The HETT Show returns to London with a packed digital health and care agenda on 27 and 28 September. Uniting digital health professionals, HETT Show will include 5 theatres: Culture & Implementation, Digital Maturity Forum, Digitally Empowered Patients, Integration & Interoperability, and its latest addition, Infrastructure & Data Architecture. Thousands of delegates will enjoy two […]
Fixing the plumbing is only half the story of getting information flowing across health and care
For too long we have assumed that if we just get the right kit in the NHS and social care our problems of getting one computer to talk to another would be solved. Unfortunately the interoperability solution that has evaded health and care for so long isn’t simply a matter of plumbing in the tech […]
PRSB launch the #CareAboutMe campaign at the Digital Healthcare Show
PRSB exhibited across both days of the Health Plus Care Show, and took the opportunity to launch the #CareAboutMe campaign. Following a rush of social media activity, attendees made their way over to PRSB’s stand to share their About Me story and find out more about how the standard can help them. You can watch […]
PRSB responds to the ‘Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis’ report
The PRSB welcomes the findings and recommendations of the ‘Better, broader, safer’ report, led by Professor Ben Goldacre, to review how health data is used for research and analysis and how this can be improved to benefit patient outcomes and the healthcare sector more broadly. ‘Better, broader safer’ recommends the building of a number of […]
The digital revolution in healthcare has everything to do with nursing and midwifery.
A guest blog from Lucy Brown, Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of the Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy As the Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of the Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy, my role predominantly focuses on leading the educational and membership workstreams to commission leadership, online and bespoke programmes and scholarships, as well as […]
New information sharing standard to support social prescribing
Social prescribing helps connect people to services that can improve their health and wellbeing, and sharing information is key to ensuring people get the support they need in the community. PRSB has published a standard that will help ensure the right information flows between services to support better care and outcomes for people using social […]
The Welsh Nursing Care Record’s journey to success
Fran Beadle is the National Clinical Informatics Lead (Nursing) in Wales and Assistant Head of Clinical Informatics in Wales The Welsh Nursing Care Record was created by Digital Health and Care Wales and nurses and colleagues across the Welsh health system to create a digital process with standardised nursing documentation. The Record went live in […]
PRSB welcome TPP and RIX to the Standards Partnership Scheme
With the ambition to improve clinical access and empower patients, joining the Standards Partnership Scheme was a natural step for TPP. Rix Research and Media also joined the Scheme this month, with the aim of enabling person-centred care for people with learning disabilities. TPP is now entering its landmark 25th year since being founded by […]