PRSB People Network event a success
All of PRSB’s standards are co-designed and co-led by people with lived experience. We set up the People Network to centre these views and strengthen our public engagement to improve our processes and champion better information sharing to improve health and care services. We held an online workshop with our People Network this month to […]
Data standards support personalised care for social prescribing
Social prescribing project clinical lead, Sarah Moreton, gives her view on how standards can support her work as a social prescriber.
PRSB to join Health Plus Care Online
You can join the PRSB at three exciting sessions at Health Plus Care Online next month, where we’ll discuss how standards are working in action. On 24 February, the citizen and clinical leads on our social care project, Sam Bergin Goncalves and Professor Adam Gordon, president elect at the British Geriatrics Society, will talk about how using standards can improve the […]
Better information sharing will help people with rare conditions
Varan Navaratnam has a range of complex, long-term conditions, some of which have yet to be diagnosed. He explains why good digital information sharing and care plans could make his care better and safer in the future. How have your health conditions impacted your life and what kind of care have your received? I was […]
Joining Forces to Enhance Care Delivery
The PRSB, INTEROPen, and the Royal College of Physicians have formalised a new official partnership, enhancing our joint commitment to improving information sharing across health and social care. On 22 May, Lorraine Foley, CEO of the PRSB, Luke Readman, Co-Chair of INTEROPen, and Dr Ian Bullock, CEO of the Royal College of Physicians, signed a […]
Patient engagement ‘key focus’ for PRSB
Judith Brodie has joined the PRSB as a patient engagement consultant. She talks to us about her new role and why she got involved with the organisation. What will your work at the PRSB involve? The PRSB has a strong commitment to patient and public engagement, which is evident through the work it has been doing […]
PRSB working with NHS Digital on standardising pathology coding
Diagnostic information is important in healthcare – pathology data follows the patients from their first medical encounters through their diagnostic and treatment pathway, and throughout their whole journey. Accurate and comparable information is a cornerstone of any medical data exchange and decision making, therefore establishing and adopting underlying principles and standards of coding and communication […]
Help us improve the quality of GP referral letters
We’re asking for your help with a survey to develop a standard for clinical referral letters to improve the quality of information sent by GPs. When finished, the clinical referral letters standard will complete our suite of transfer of care standards, and will enable hospital clinicians to reduce inappropriate referrals and better manage heavy caseloads.Working […]
PRSB explores how standards are being used
​Putting standards into practice is an essential part of the work we do The PRSB has been undertaking a series of visits to organisations who are currently using the e-discharge summary standard, to better understand the successes and challenges they are having. For standards to be successfully put into action, they must be useable in […]
GP videos show importance of e-discharge summaries
GPs tell us that the discharge summary is often the only record they obtain of a patient’s hospital stay and a well-written discharge summary is invaluable. But in busy hospitals its importance is often overlooked. A new series of educational videos by the PRSB aims to help raise awareness amongst health and care professionals of […]