Standards Partnership Scheme officially launches in July

This month we officially launched our Standards Partnership Scheme with lively web pages and exciting blogs from our new partners, and we hosted our latest partner event which attracted record numbers to hear about our current standards projects, our scheduled releases and our priority work for the future.

Shared decision-making is for everyone

Involving people in decisions about their treatment and care so that they can make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing are at the heart of person-centred care. PRSB has completed a first phase of work to develop a first draft standard to support shared decision-making. We are now looking to test it in pilot sites and complete development with further wide consultation.

Final call to share your views

Information sharing about a person’s wishes and needs in an emergency or when they are nearing the end of their lives is critically important and we want you to have your say in our survey. The feedback we receive will help ensure that NHS care staff and social care services have the right information to hand to provide high quality urgent, palliative and end of life care and that it can be viewed on digital devices like laptops and tablets in health and care settings.

The survey closes at midnight, Sunday 1st August and should take around 15 minutes to complete.

Get ready for PRSB’s AGM

We’re planning our AGM for 23 September and it’s one to hold in your diary. We’ll be shining the spotlight on the critical importance of digital information sharing between social care and health and the challenges and opportunities this poses. From our keynote speaker to our panel sessions and videos we’ll be demonstrating the progress to date on digitising social care and looking to what the future holds and how we can collaborate to get there.

PRSB’s AGM is Thursday 23 September 10-12.30.

For more information contact Alannah.McGovern@theprsb.org

Schools in for the Summer

July’s Digital Health Summer School was a huge success, with over 1,300 attendees over the 3 days, and PRSB was proud to feature our Chair Professor Maureen Baker presenting on the future of digital first primary care. Maureen and Dame Clare Gerada discussed how online tools can be used to increase access to primary care as well as help people to manage their own care more effectively with timely interventions by GPs and other primary care clinicians.

PRSB nurse researcher and analyst Annette Gilmore joined a panel on the digital future of nursing care and spoke about our care planning standard and the project we are undertaking now to develop standards for nursing care. If you missed the sessions you can still view them at Home - Digital Health Summer Schools.

PRSB is recruiting nurse researchers who are interested in helping us develop standards. If you are interested and would like to learn more please contact info@theprsb.org.

Advisory board update

Our work to develop standards for social prescribing and diabetes were among the topics discussed at the Advisory Board which met earlier in the week. Social prescribing link worker, Sarah Moreton, gave an update on the feedback from consultations to date on social prescribing and Ojaih Willow, spoke about the diabetes standards project and the benefits people living with diabetes and their care professionals are seeking from better information sharing.

Olly Carr from NHSX presented the data strategy Data Saves Lives and members offered a rich range of views about the importance of public engagement particularly with communities and groups locally to build trust and confidence in NHS use of data. Members said more emphasis should be placed on communicating the benefits of data sharing, articulating plans for reducing the burden of data collections in both health and social care, and ensuring that when data is repurposed the original context and meaning isn’t lost.

There is still time to feedback on the strategy as the survey deadline has been extended to 20 August.

Share your views at NHSX Data Strategy Survey (dhsc.gov.uk).

New faces at the PRSB

PRSB is delighted to welcome new communications officer Athena who describes why she’s joined us and how she intends to contribute to our work to improve health and care.