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Digital Health Rewired returned to the Business Design Centre in London on 15 and 16 March, featuring keynote speeches from Simon Bolton, Tim Ferris, Helen Thomas and Dan West. The agenda covered many areas of

Join us at the Digital Healthcare Show; a UK event for healthcare professionals looking to revolutionise the NHS through the use of data, analytics and technology, returning to the ExCeL London on 18-19 May 2022.

The inaugural Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit (LHIS) was a great success, with a strong delegation of exhibitors and participants spanning health and social care. The agenda was wide-ranging, and attendees heard from clinicians, digital health

PRSB was recently awarded a four-year contract for a Core information and Standards Service with NHSX.  This contract is split into two parts with a core contract covering the resources and infrastructure to deliver our

The PRSB is excited to announce that it will be exhibiting at a new physical event, hosted by the team behind Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT), designed to support future-focused thought leadership on healthcare innovation.

PRSB’s 2021 achievements

We entered 2021 in lockdown at the height of the second wave of the pandemic, with the health and social care sector working tirelessly to keep us safe. Despite these difficulties, we’ve also had notable

Tell us about yourself, your professional background and your work within the National Care Forum (NCF)? Hi, I’m Claire Sutton, I’m a registered nurse, and Digital Transformation Lead at the National Care Forum. NCF is

Better digital nursing records with consistent and standardised information that nurses can access in different care settings creates safer, better outcomes for people and gives nurses more time to care. The PRSB has been commissioned

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

For many people, improving their health and wellbeing requires a holistic approach and support by professionals who can help them focus on what matters to them to live well. Social prescribing aims to connect people to local, non-clinical services which can offer support and link workers are

Caring for the growing numbers of people with diabetes is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare as “diabetes is the largest contributor to healthcare cost and reduced life expectancy in Europe.”  The number of people living in the UK with diabetes is

In the middle of June we welcomed our Partners to the second in our series of workshops. The lunchtime event provided an overview of the current national perspective on shared care records from John Farenden,

The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has expanded its community pharmacy information standards, so that community pharmacists and GPs can better support integrated care for people in their local communities. In recent years the role

The PRSB has updated its care planning standard to support community mental health care for people with severe mental health conditions to live well in the community. Commissioned by NHS England and Improvement, the care

Job description Communications officer/copy writer WTE: 37.5 hours Pay rate: £27,000 Contact: helene.feger@theprsb.org Permanent full-time contract (remote working) but job shares will be considered The PRSB was set up in April 2013 as a unique

We would like to say a big thank you to Dr Philip Scott, who is stepping down from our board. Philip worked with PRSB since inception, and contributed hugely to both our long and short-term

Forty leaders from across health and social care met this month at an NHSX round table, convened by PRSB, to share their ideas and solutions to the challenge of driving use of standards and interoperability.

Good end of life care is a vital part of wellbeing, helping people and their families to feel more in control of their own wishes. This month we signed a letter that was published in the Independent

PRSB was delighted that 130 people took part in our online workshop to discuss what information should be recorded in a person’s care records when discussing treatment options, preferences and concerns. Known as shared decision

NHSX aims to ensure standards are fit for purpose and widely adopted so that health and care information can be shared digitally across systems to support better care. PRSB has been asked to support the

Nurses are a crucial part of care across a wide range of sectors, with patients and other professionals often reliant on their expertise. That’s why the PRSB has been asked by NHSx to determine what’s needed from

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