Welcome to our January newsletter! 

Final version of the NHS Health Check Standard now published 

Over 1.2 million NHS Health Checks are performed annually for early detection and management of key risk factors that contribute to premature mortality. However, variations in clinical templates have led to the use of inaccurate codes, negatively impacting the recording of people’s cardiovascular disease risk.

Working with the Department of Health and Social Care, we've developed the NHS Health Check Standard to enable accurate data recording when performing NHS Health Checks, resulting in better informed clinical actions and high-quality monitoring and evaluation of the service.

The standard is endorsed by Blood Pressure UK, Royal College of Nursing, Royal Society for Public Health and Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Interweave achieves conformance with the PRSB’s Core Information Standard

Achieving this conformance allows Interweave to be at the forefront of data standardisation. It does not only symbolise their commitment to supporting interoperability between the many health and social care systems, but one that denotes their dedication towards the national goal of delivering nationally shared patient records.

Person Centred Software blogs for us about the power of data in transforming social care

Millions of interactions between service users, care staff and service providers take place every day. Add to this, interactions between service users and their network of loved ones as well as healthcare professionals. How can we best use data to transform social care? Find out in the blog written by our Quality Partner! 

Do you know someone with epilepsy or have experience with this condition yourself? 

We are developing an information standard to support the integrated and continuous care of epilepsy across settings, and want to hear from people who live with this condition in our online focus groups in February. The focus groups are for individuals aged 65+, children, young people, and parents. 

Improving nursing care and streamlining operations with documentation standardisation

In November, our Deputy Chief Executive, Oliver Lake, joined the panel at Nursing Times Digital Nursing on how documentation standardisation can help nurses work more efficiently. Oliver talked about our Nursing Care Needs Standard and how it can free nurses from admin burden. The recording of this session is now available.

Want to become a Clinical Safety Officer?

Together with Ethos Ltd, we offer an online foundation course on clinical safety. This CPD UK accredited training equips you with the basic requirements of the DCB0129/0160 standards for clinical risk assessment and management AND introduction to PRSB standards! Once completed, you will be certified as an accredited Clinical Safety Officer. Our next session is on Tuesday, 25 February.

Meet us at Rewired 2025 (19 March, Birmingham)

We are looking forward to connecting with our sector colleagues at Rewired, where our Chair, Reecha Sofat, will join two panel sessions on the second day! Keep up to date with our social media posts on X and LinkedIn for further announcements. Will you be there too? Let us know, so we can connect while there! 

PRSB's Advisory Board meeting - summary

Members heard about our work programme updates, including progress on our project discovering how person characteristics are recorded in health records. We also gave an overview of our newly-formed Four Nations Working Group and hosted a Miro board session to gather members' views on the Government's 10-year plan.