Author: Holly Kearn

Employee spotlight: Oliver Lake, Transition CEO for PRSB

Spotlight on: Oliver Lake

We sat down with Oliver Lake, PRSB’s new Transition CEO, to ask him a few questions about his experience, what drives him, and a bit about life outside of work. What initially drew you to your field, and how has that passion evolved? My first job at age 16 was in Data Input and IT […]

Navigating Change: What our Members and Partners are telling us about the future of health and care data

Health and care data

In an ever-evolving digital and policy landscape, PRSB’s Members and Partners continue to face both persistent challenges and emerging opportunities in health and care data. We’ve gathered insights into the key issues shaping their work today—and their hopes for what comes next. Members: Striving for Consistency and Readiness Our Members have expressed the everyday obstacles […]

Oliver Lake appointed as new Transition Chief Executive Officer for PRSB

Oliver Lake

The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has announced the appointment of Oliver Lake as its new Transition Chief Executive Officer. He will officially take up the role in April 2025. As an experienced leader with a deep expertise in the health and care sector, Oliver brings a wealth of knowledge and a strong vision for […]

Changes to information standards as part of the new Data Bill

The new Data Bill

The DHSC and NHSE will introduce changes to Information Standards through the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) upcoming Data Bill. This is one of the wider enablers designed to deliver the necessary step-change in productivity and efficiency within the NHS, aiming to achieve the desired efficacy and truly transform the NHS. The bill […]

Join PRSB’s Professional Network dedicated to the development and adoption of standards

PRSB is further extending our engagement with health and care professionals and looking to increase the variety of professionals involved in our work. We launched the PRSB Professional Network in 2022, as a community of interest and place of mutual learning on information standards, interoperability and digital transformation and would like to extend an invitation to individuals […]

NHS England awards contract for new data platform

PRSB welcomes NHS England’s announcement that the contract to provide a Federated Data Platform for the NHS and social care has been awarded. Palantir and Accenture named as the contract winners. As an organisation at the vanguard of digital information sharing to improve the delivery of health and care, PRSB is excited about the potential […]

FDB announces partnership with PRSB

FDB (First Databank) announced today that it has partnered with the PRSB (Professional Record Standards Body) as part of its Standards Partnership Scheme. As a PRSB partner, FDB is keen to contribute its expertise and insight on digital prescribing, decision support and medicines optimisation to standards development so that electronic health records (EHRs) and other […]

Personalised care gives people choice and control

A guest blog from James Sanderson, Director of Community Health and Personalised Care at NHS England. When we look back over the years, it’s not difficult to see that the progress in medicine has been enormous. It seems unbelievable that it all started in Babylon; one of the first civilizations which introduced clean, running water […]

My name is Sarah. My medical treatment changed my life.

“My name is Sarah. I love my family and friends, being in nature and dancing. My medical treatment gave me fatigue and changed the sensitivity in my body which was my tool of work as a Movement Psychotherapist. I have had to give up the work I loved and no longer have the energy I […]

“If someone’s been working for a period of time, in a form of therapy, for instance, where there’s an agreed plan for the locality when they may present in an emergency situation … then it’s really important for us to be able to see that that information and be able to act appropriately according to that because, you know, there isn’t and there shouldn’t be a stock response to that. These plans are designed to be individualised and personalised.  All services should be giving that personalised approach to care wherever possible. And a standard such as [PCSP standard] definitely moves us closer towards being able to do that. [Not acting on agreed plans] is a key finding in terms of emergency responses over the years where responses have been inappropriate.” – Mental Health Nurse

“Following a particular plan that’s been put into place will result in much better outcomes and prevent the sort of poor outcome which would otherwise be leading to an unplanned hospital admission.” – General Practitioner

Successful teams have the functional skills to lead a task, benefit from diversity, and are led in a way that creates time and space for reflection; the ability to take stock periodically, of the task and of the way in which the team is engaged in delivering it. Your stakeholder analysis [HYPERLINK] should help you assemble the most appropriate team and identify how the team interacts and relates to other stakeholders like sponsors, services users, etc.

The variation in the size, both in terms of population served and numbers of constituent organisations, and of complexity, between Integrated Care Systems, precludes the possibility of any prescriptive guidance on the way in which this team is assembled.

Engeström’s expansive learning cycle of learning actions explains how there are 7 stages of learning actions;