Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) and NHS Digital perform a role with setting standards using feedback from stakeholders including patients, pharmacy teams and others.

The use of  ‘standards’ within the health sector enables people, devices and systems to communicate in a more efficient and electronic manner. The growing use of standards should improve patient care and should also help to improve centralised records as well as enable improved analysis.

Standards can also reduce the need for health and care workers to ‘re-key’ information and for patients to need to repeat themselves about their experiences.

Interoperability refers to systems that interoperate with each other using shared technical standards.

Read more at: PRSB website and Standards.

PRSB worked with stakeholders to establish a Pharmacy information dataflows dataset. This sets out how certain information can be passed from pharmacy systems to GP practice ones:

• Flu vaccine notifications
• Emergency supply notifications

More items may be developed in due course e.g. Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) notifications.

PRSB have established a standard for computable dose standards.

Read more and which systems are following this standard at: Computable dose standards.

PRSB established a standard for what is in the LHCR core dataset.

Read more at: LHCRs.