A few words from PRSB's Chair 🎀

"As we say goodbye to 2022, I want to take a moment to thank our members, partners and stakeholders for their generous support of PRSB and wish all of you very happy holidays and all the best for the new year. In the past year we’ve welcomed a record number of new members in health and social care, in recognition of the importance of standards and together we’ve developed key standards and used our collective voice to influence the digital agenda.

"I’m personally proud of our efforts this year to raise awareness of PRSB, standards and interoperability with Parliamentarians, system leaders and the media. We look forward to working with you in 2023 to speed up progress towards digitising care records so that professionals and people who use services alike can realise the benefits digitisation promises." - Maureen Baker, PRSB's Chair

A look ahead from our CEO 🎀

"We’ve had a remarkable year at PRSB and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to our success this year and wish you all the best during the holiday season. The rapid growth and recognition of our Standards Partnership Scheme amongst suppliers, health and care providers and system leaders has been a high point for me personally. We are looking forward to working with many of you on new opportunities to expand the scheme in 2023.

"Awareness of the About Me standard and our #CareAboutMe campaign is high and if PRSB has a New Year’s resolution, it is to see the standard available and adopted universally next year." - Lorraine Foley, PRSB's CEO

Health and care providers benefit from PRSB's Standards Partnership Scheme

Feedback from our recent awareness sessions on our Personalised Care and Support Plan delivered for new provider partners shows that clinicians value being part of the co-designing process in digitising the standard, and feel that having shared access to information will help them provide person-centred care. 

Government publishes implementation update on Paterson’s Inquiry

PRSB’s recommendations to improve patient-centred information following the Paterson inquiry are being adopted, a government report confirms. Our Outpatient Letter Standard and our Shared Decision Making Standard support people’s involvement in knowing about and deciding their care and treatment. 

The importance of human connection and personal approach in our care

Sarah Woolf, Movement Psychotherapist, talks about a significant link between physical and mental health, and shares her story which illustrates how a holistic and personalised approach to those receiving care can play a huge part in restoring their emotional wellbeing when experiencing an illness. 

Help us develop a wound care standard

Whether you deliver or use wound care services and treatements, we want to hear from you in our 10-minute survey by 6 January, 5pm, to make sure that our new information standard, in development with the National Wound Care Strategy Programme, meets user needs and represents a wide range of views to provide better wound care. 

Infection Prevention and Control Conference 2023

Knowlex is supporting PRSB's wound care project and wants clinicians to take part in our survey. Knowlex are specialists in improving healthcare delivery and have provided PRSB with FREE delegate passes for members interested in attending the Infection Prevention and Control Conference in Birmingham on 25-26 April. To apply, please contact t.shuttlewort@knowlex.co.uk and quote a promo code PRSB1.