Navigating the data frontier
Join our event for a full day of insights and discussions about the critical challenges and opportunities in revolutionising health and care through data.
20th June 2024
15 Hatfields Conference Centre, London SE1 8DJ
Latest news
Congratulations to our conformant partners!
We have recently seen a surge in conformances against our Personalised Care and Support Plan Standard and the About Me Standard. These conformances will help accelerate the delivery of personalised care and better interoperability.
Just published: Community health services discovery report
In August 2023, the PRSB initiated a review into information standards within community healthcare services. Consultations with front line staff and the public revealed significant challenges in accessing up-to-date, patient-centred information, particularly at the frontline of care. Read more about the findings and recommendations.
We're speaking at the Primary Care Show
The Primary Care Show on 15 – 16 May in Birmingham is the next event where you can hear from us. We are looking forward to presenting our work on the Nursing Care Needs Standard, our project on data management in general practice (both on 15th May) and the Diabetes Record Information Standard (on 16th May).
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What people are saying
“Working closely with PRSB has been integral to delivering cutting-edge health tech solutions for the NHS, driven by their robust standards. I look forward to reflecting on our shared accomplishments and exploring the promising future of healthcare technology at the upcoming AGM and celebratory reception.”
Rob Walker, CTO, Sitekit
"Publication of the About Me Standard was an important step for patient-centred care, ensuring that health and care staff understand the most important details a person wishes them to know."
Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian
"On behalf of the Care Provider Alliance, we support the PRSB on its next chapter ensuring the dignity and human rights of individuals receiving care are preserved in the sector."
Nadra Ahmed OBE, Chair of the Care Provider Alliance
“The PRSB continues to play a crucial role bringing together key organisations and shaping healthcare information for the future, so that pharmacists and other professionals have access to the right information at the right time, to help them deliver the best care.”
James Davies, Director for England, Royal Pharmaceutical College
"The PRSB's standards ensure consistent, high-quality care records, which are pivotal for improving safety, quality and outcomes for people drawing on homecare services."
Jane Townson, Chief Executive, Homecare Association
“The PRSB has made many key achievements to improve standards of care and preserve human rights over the past 10 years. I am proud that our members have been part of bringing the much-needed professional standards to the sector."
Kathy Roberts, CEO, Association of Mental Health Providers
"The PRSB has been a great ally to IHRIM, it has helped on a number of things but the most important is the Document Naming Standards and starting a conversation around the gender challenges in delivering health and maintaining records for these patients."
Kim Bellis, IHRIM
"In your lifetime About Me could be About You".
Samantha Goncalves, carer and patient representative
"Whenever technology has advanced, organisations have developed local systems to meet their needs. Those systems need PRSB standards to allow the communication of data and we will continue to see the need for those standards to evolve in the future."
Ian Turner, National Care Association
"Having delivered multiple interoperability and data projects for the NHS alongside PRSB, we're delighted to be sponsoring their 10 year anniversary event. Here's to the next 10 years working together!"
Chris Richmond, Principal Clinical Consultant, Answer Digital
"The PRSB has maintained a consistent message for ten years. These standards are vital for patient safety."
Jane Dacre, Emeritus Professor of Health and Social Care
“The Institute of Biomedical Science and its members are delighted to have been able work with PRSB to develop standards across the healthcare landscape. We look forward to continuing participation as members of the PRSB.”
Robert Simpson, Clinical Informatics Lead, Institute of Biomedical Science
“ PRSB provide the golden thread that runs through clinical practice, health informatics and healthcare digital technology for both data that should be included in applications and the data required to support interoperability.”
David Hancock, New Found Consulting Services
"The PRSB is a beacon of excellence for the improvement of record standards across health and social care. They are a go-to hub for expertise and its vast library of standards, reports and guidance help professionals to provide better care."
Lawrence Ambrose, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Royal College of Podiatry
“The PRSB’s ability to bring so many representatives from health and care together and create a unified voice on the importance of information standards is an enormous achievement. This is transforming the way care records support patients, their carers and the care professionals that provide their care.”
Prof Iain Carpenter, founder and former PRSB Chair
“PRSB’s biggest achievement has been creating an environment to co-produce health and care information standards with a broad range of professional, industry and public stakeholders and managing to sustain and persist that process. PRSB is important as a way of encouraging UK wide standards development based on a broad range of professional leadership.”
Ian Thompson, GP Clinical Lead, Digital Health and Care at Scottish government
A decade of achievement
“This year marks a watershed for PRSB, which celebrates its 10th anniversary – a decade of achievement in driving digital transformation in health and care through the development and adoption of information record standards.
From humble beginnings we have grown to become the authoritative voice on information record standards, representing our members who span the four nations of the United Kingdom, the professions in health and social care, people that speak for hundreds of patient groups, suppliers, health and care providers, and those working at the forefront of digital transformation. Ours is proud track record of accomplishment, and we share the highlights of our 10 years of success here.”
Prof Maureen Baker CBE, Chair of PRSB
Looking ahead
“PRSB’s focus in the months and years to come is to get standards into widespread use so that professionals, suppliers, and the public see the benefits of using them.
Working with our key stakeholder groups, we will progress conformance with standards and seek to ensure that our state-of-the-art conformance assessment methodology is recognised by procurement frameworks, service contracts and advocacy of the Standards Partnership Scheme. We will continue to explore new ways of addressing our members priorities and ensure that standards are recognised for the pivotal role they play in realising the wider system ambitions around harnessing the use of data and analytics to improve people’s health, deliver innovation through research, identify service needs, and support professionals and people to ensure care is safe, high quality and second to none.”
Lorraine Foley, CEO
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