The Palliative and End of Life Care Information Standard is showcased in a new PRSB standards toolkit and event for suppliers  

This month saw the launch of our latest toolkit to help local health and care systems implement the PRSB’s Palliative and End of Life Care Information Standard, so that people get the best care at the end of their life. We also held the second in our popular series of events for suppliers to support implementation of the standard. Its adoption will ensure that individuals are able to decide what care is right for them at this critical stage of life and that this information is available to health and care professionals who need it, to support the person and their loved ones.  

In our latest blog, Dr Kath Lambert talks about the importance of sharing and recording people’s information as they near the end of their lives.  

ECCO Solutions becomes a PRSB partner 

We are pleased to welcome an award-winning system supplier for management of care as our new partner. The partnership with the PRSB will help ECCO Solutions demonstrate to its customers that they can use the company’s services with confidence to help them meet the needs of care professionals. 

Ernie Digital joins the PRSB's Standards Partnership Scheme 

A warm welcome to Ernie Digital, a supplier of a fully integrated care planning software, who has joined our Standards Partnership Scheme. We are looking forward to supporting Ernie on their journey towards standards conformance and enabling safer and more efficient care. 

Improving population health management through data and individualised care

In his latest blog, Ben Wilson of Orion Health describes how information standards, including the Core Information Standard, and shared-care records can help improve the collection and quality of patient data to support better population health management and sustainable future of the NHS.  

PRSB exhibits at Rewired and presents at the INTEROpen Hackathon 

A massive thanks to everyone we met and spent time with at Rewired on 14 – 15 March in London. We made new friends and partners and caught up with familiar faces, and we were delighted that our team could contribute to the INTEROPen and NHS England Hackathon, which featured PRSB's diabetes standards and FHIR UK Core mapping.  

PRSB co-hosts workshop at the first ever Shared Care Record Summit in Leeds 

Lorraine Foley, our CEO, partnered with Sophie Lowsley from Interweave to host a workshop on collaborating to speed adoption of data standards and drive interoperability at the summit. Keynote speaker Melissa Mead poignantly spoke about the death of her one-year-old son William from sepsis and tragic implications of not sharing information between organisations. It was a lively event and ICS’s demonstrated real enthusiasm to make shared care records and interoperability a reality.

Public Policy Exchange event on digital transformation

Earlier this month, Lorraine Foley spoke at a Public Policy Exchange event on ‘Digital Transformation in the NHS’. She stressed the importance of clinically driven standards as the foundations for  

successful digital transformation in care. You can watch Lorraine’s presentation from 00:50:50.  

Resuscitation Council UK publishes ReSPECT

Documenting recommendations for an individual’s clinical care and treatment is crucial, if in the future they are unable to express their wishes. The Resuscitation Council UK, who endorses our Palliative and End of Life Care Information Standard, recently published  ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment).

Time to step up the pace on digitising health and social care

In our second commentary piece for  Digital Health Intelligence, our CEO explains why it is the perfect time to speed up digitisation. With the merger of NHS Digital and NHS England,  Alex Elias will chair the Sponsorship Board, which governs the relationship between PRSB and NHS England. We believe these changes will ensure that information standards help deliver  the digital future of the NHS and social care.