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 […]
New PRSB member spotlight: CIO Network
PRSB is delighted to welcome the CIO Network as a new member. The organisation brings together chief information officers to support their development as clinical information leaders, and promote their involvement in advancing health and social care services. Lee Rickles, Yorkshire & Humber Care Record Programme Director and CIO Network Advisory Board Member, perceives standards […]
Reaching new heights with highly personalised care
A guest blog by Rob Hardisty, Solution Director at Graphnet Health. What is integrated care’s next big move? I believe the obvious next step is using digital tools to help people record and share what they and/or their families consider their most important information while they are being cared for. Using IT as an enabler, […]
The role of standards in delivering integrated care
The health and social care sector is currently experiencing a ‘boom’ of digital innovations, harnessing the power of data, increased connectivity and greater integration across different systems and settings, to improve the delivery of care. While it may seem that digital technology is key to driving these changes, it’s only a part of the solution. […]
Using standards to optimise personal health technologies
Mobile health, also known as mHealth, has undoubtedly revolutionised healthcare and self-management, providing health data within a short space of time, or even in real time. However, while personal digital technologies seem like a huge step forward in health and care, there are still some elements to consider to make sure we utilise their full […]
Overcoming barriers to successful implementation of the About Me standard
The NHS estimates that personalised care will benefit up to 2.5m people by 2024. During an era in which almost every industry harnesses the ability to provide services that would suit individual requirements, it’s equally the right time for health and social care providers to abandon the one-size-fits-all approach, and start focusing on the needs […]
Using the About Me standard to understand people’s preferences and promote person centred care
A guest blog from Chris Graham, Chief Executive at Picker. Picker is a charity with a vision of “the highest quality person centred care for all, always”: It is this vision that has fuelled our work, ensuring patients and service users remain at the heart of care services. Our late founder, Harvey Picker, has been […]
Challenges to widespread adoption of standards
Lorraine Foley, CEO, PRSB As the mercury spiralled, we knew it was going to be a tough week for health and care services, already under pressure from another increase in numbers of people with COVID-19 and the battle to restore services after the last two extraordinary years. It is now widely accepted that there is […]
A welcome plan, but delivery is key
In quick succession in recent days, the Government published two strategies for digital transformation and use of people’s data for health and care planning and research (A Plan for Digital Health and Social Care and Data Saves Lives). The digital agenda is central to plans for the future of the NHS and social care, and […]