Who’s using our standards?

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Who's using our standards?

Cambridge early adopters of electronic discharge summaries

Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust is a global digital exemplar and early adopter for the use of the Professional Record Standards Body headings in their electronic discharge summaries. They have worked with the PRSB to embed the national standards in their inpatient and day-case units and plan to do the same for their emergency department patients. Read the full case study

E-discharge standard improving safety and care for patients.

Many hospitals are now sharing specific discharge information on medications with community pharmacists, provided they have the patient’s permission. This means that pharmacists can have access to information on a patient’s discharge medication to reconcile with their GP’s prescription and resolve any issues with the treatment after they have been discharged from hospital. Flagging any differences quickly is reducing errors and improving the overall safety of care for patients.

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;