The standards conformance process
The Standards Partnership Scheme provides the foundations for interoperability which will ultimately ensure health and care records reach a standard of information that can be accessed by the right people, in the right place, at the right time.
Suppliers seeking conformance to receive the Quality Mark will be assessed for conformance against chosen PRSB standards. The conformance process provides crucially important information for supplier’s customers, the wider system and the supplier themselves.
How is a supplier assessed for standard conformance?
Each PRSB standard has an accompanying conformance pack. One of our expert assessors will meet with you to discuss how conformance is assessed. You will then complete the self-assessment. Our assessors are on hand to provide you with guidance throughout the process.
Two expert assessors will work together with you to review your self-assessment, and run test cases through your system to provide direct evidence. The results are reviewed by an internal panel and the outcomes agreed in a Conformance and Quality Report.
By participating in assessment, you can engage in dialogue and challenge specific areas of standards that are missing, not used or require amendment. PRSB recognises the value of this process in driving uptake and adherence to standards in health and care systems and ensuring standards work effectively.
Criteria for conformance
PRSB recognises that our partners might be at the start of their journey to data conformance and organisational best practice in standards and few, if any, will be 100% compliant from the start.
The assessment is intended to recognise and encourage positive, incremental progress in adopting standards. Therefore, we award levels of conformance with the ultimate aim of achieving 100% implementation of the standard.
Achieving the minimum bar (40%) means that a supplier achieving the quality mark has demonstrated an instance of the standard that is safe and effective. Higher percentages of conformance (50-69% and 70% and above) shows how far the supplier has gone between the minimum and ‘best practice’.
Find out more
You can find out more about our standards conformance process in our conformance assessment methodology.
Contact us
Contact us at partners@theprsb.org and we can arrange to talk with you, or complete the form to register your interest and we’ll be in touch with more information.