Driving digital change in health and care
At PRSB, we’re passionate about making health and care information work better for everyone.
Our health and care standards exist so that vital information can be made available to the right people, in the right place, at the right time — making care safer, smoother, and more connected.
Why do we need care record standards?
Just as seatbelts reduce fatalities and injuries on the road, standards ensure that the right information is available at the right time, allowing health and care professionals to make informed decisions.
When health and care professionals have the right information in front of them, they can make effective, safe clinical decisions and engage in meaningful consultations.
Shared information between health and social care organisations supports people to stay at home for longer. It has the potential to prevent millions of unnecessary A&E visits and delayed discharges from hospitals each year.
When every clinician knows exactly what information needs to be collected the guesswork is removed, allowing professionals to focus on care.
A Health Foundation study of 9,000 people with long-term conditions found that people who feel confident to manage their own care had 18% fewer GP visits and 38% attendances in Accident and Emergency.
With overwhelming demand for services and an increasing focus on prevention to tackle NHS waiting lists and bolster the workforce, the best assets we have are people themselves.
Latest news
PRSB to explore how person characteristics are used in clinical decision-making
Working in partnership with the Federation for Informatics Professionals and closely with a diverse stakeholder community, we aim to develop a standardised approach to making healthcare more inclusive, efficient, and person-centred.
Understanding 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. Kate Colborne-Baber of the Person Centred Software blogs for us on how we can we best use data to transform social care.
Interweave achieves conformance with the PRSB’s Core Information Standard for shared care records
Achieving this conformance allows Interweave to be at the forefront of data standardisation. It does not only symbolise their commitment to supporting interoperability between health and social care systems, but one that denotes their dedication towards the goal of delivering nationally shared patient records.
How can standards benefit you?
People and
carers
If your care provider uses standards in their systems they can record your information consistently and safely with the right people, at the right time.
Health and care professionals
Using PRSB standards in your IT systems will reduce time consuming admin and duplication, enabling you to deliver high quality care.
System
suppliers
Aligning to nationally agreed information standards will support the delivery of cutting-edge health tech solutions for the NHS.
Health and
care providers
Share accurate, standardised clinical information and coded data across all your services for streamlined care.
Our members are our strength
Partnering for progress
The PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme connects IT system suppliers and commercial organisations with the PRSB to accelerate the implementation of standards.
The scheme is supported by system leaders in the NHS and social care and offers standards conformance assessment led by experienced PRSB clinical advisors.
"We have now embedded the Core Information Standard into our core product development lifecycle and will use it to help inform all future product design activities. Our updated system is already available to a subset of customers, and we are excited about rolling the solution out further.”
Ben Wilson, Product Solution Director for Orion Health
“We’re excited and proud to be the first healthcare organisation conformant with the Personalised Care and Support Planning Standard. Achieving this means our services can now co-design and share digital care plans with patients.”
Pam Pahal, Digital Transformation Programme Lead, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust,
“The team at the PRSB were very supportive throughout the whole conformance journey and their expertise and advice were invaluable. "
Jeremy Hudson, Managing Director at Carebeans
“Working closely with PRSB has been integral to delivering cutting-edge health tech solutions for the NHS."
Rob Walker, CTO, Sitekit
"There is nothing better for software providers than a clear specification of the work needed, and PRSB is providing key specifications for interoperability."
Jonathan Papworth, Founder, Person Centred Software
"By ensuring that we conform to PRSB's nationally agreed standards, we have a robust foundation upon which our services can be configured to meet our customer's needs.”
Paul Targett, Managing Director, Riviam
“We firmly believe that aligning to and supporting PRSB standards are essential steps in the national interoperability journey.”
Andrea Dantas, Director and Physician Executive, Oracle Health
"Working to meaningful open standards has the potential to positively impact quality and consistency of care."
Prashant Goud, Director of Services, Dom Portal
"We pride ourselves on our commitment to supporting healthcare standards globally and are delighted to be part of the PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme.”
Jon Payne, Director of Sales Engineering and Education, InterSystems
"Nuance joining the Standards Partnership Scheme allows us to support trusts in the NHS by providing the tools of AI speech technologies to help deliver the PRSB standards.”
Simon Wallace, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Nuance
"We know how important PRSB standards are across all areas of health and social care – we are excited to work together and see what other opportunities will arise and how our expertise in the sector will help drive positive changes."
Leeann Monk-Ozgul, Co-Founder and Operations Director at Access Elemental Social Prescribing
“As a PRSB partner, we can further our collaboration with clinical experts that are curating these standards and validate our assessments of compliance to the standards.”
Ian Bennett, UK Solutions Lead at Better
"The PRSB took feedback from us as well as helping us achieve compliance – ensuring that we really felt valued and supported as a quality partner.”
Carrie Taylor, Clinical Lead and Safety Officer at Nourish Care
“We are honoured to have worked with such enthusiastic professionals at the PRSB who were readily available for meetings, provided clear guidance on implementation and suggestions for improvement every step of the journey.”
Ben Richardson, Business Strategy and Marketing Manager at Fusion eCare Solutions
“We found the conformance process to be simple and intuitive. From the moment the conformance pack was shared with us, our assessment team (Ian and Isabel) were on hand to provide any guidance or clarification."
Sean Orrell, Product Manager at CareLineLive
"Collaboration was an element that we particularly valued in our conformance assessment process – both the PRSB and IMS MAXIMS took a joined-up approach to help overcome challenges with the interpretation of value sets."
Nicola Cranfield, Clinical Solutions Lead at IMS MAXIMS
"Partnering with PRSB to develop and adopt national care standards ensures our digital solutions enhance information sharing across care settings, quality of data, and support the NHS’s commitment to integrated, efficient, and safe care.”
Tracy McClelland - UKI Chief Clinical Information Officer CCIO