Starting the week by welcoming Unique IQ for another year with us a member of our Partnership Scheme! Cheryl Guest, COO, Unique IQ said "We're proud to renew our partnership with PRSB. As home care continues to evolve, agreed standards are what keep innovation safe and information trustworthy. We're glad to keep contributing to that shared foundation alongside PRSB and its partners." Unique IQ provides software solutions for the home care sector. Their flagship product, IQ:caremanager, is an all-in-one platform that supports the operational needs of care agencies. Unique IQ’s tools empower care teams to deliver personalised, secure, and high-quality care while streamlining administrative tasks so their users can focus on their clients’ wellbeing. hubs.li/Q04khNXN0 #SocialCare #Interoperability #PersonCentredCare

As Parliament debates the NHS Modernisation Bill at its second reading today, the focus is on introducing a Single Patient Record across England. The government estimates that the Single Patient Record could lead to 20,000 fewer A&E attendances and 6,000 fewer hospital admissions each year, while also reducing medication errors and easing administrative burden across the NHS. It also has the potential to improve people’s experience of care by reducing the need to repeat medical history and helping information follow them more easily when they move between services. PRSB sets the specifications that define how health and care data is recorded and shared, making it trustworthy, comparable and useful across care settings. We support a system where data is captured once, consistently understood, and used to improve care, learning and outcomes for everyone. As plans for a Single Patient Record progress, standards will be essential to ensuring data flows where it is needed, when it is needed. Further reading: UK Government press release: hubs.li/Q04jwM9N0 BBC News: hubs.li/Q04jwQbn0 #HealthData #DigitalHealth #NHS #Interoperability

We’re in London today for the Automating for Better Care Forum, bringing together colleagues across health and care, to share updates and learning on digitising and automating medicines management. Many thanks to the Royal College of Pharmacy for sharing their meeting venue (and air con! it's still a hot one today). We are hearing from NHS England on technology, data and digital priorities for medicines management, alongside updates on the Optimed unit dose project from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, findings from early implementations in A&E from University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, and an update on medicines barcoding from GS1 UK. Looking forward to a great session. Would you like to get involved in realising the benefits of Connected Medication Management? If so, contact the PRSB team to tell us more - a4bc@theprsb.org. Learn more about the programme here: hubs.li/Q04j0LVP0

In this week’s Partner Spotlight, we feature Fusion eCare Solutions, who have renewed their partnership with us as a PRSB Quality Partner for another year. It’s great to continue working with them. Fusion are a supplier of care management software with more than 20 years’ experience supporting the care sector. Fusion eCare Solutions’ platform helps streamline daily tasks and provides peace of mind to care providers. The system brings together full care records and organisational management in one place. Built by care professionals, it is designed to be compliance-ready. Fusion became a PRSB Quality Partner in 2023 after achieving conformance with the PRSB About Me Standard. hubs.li/Q04hgvW70

📢 We’re delighted to welcome Skedulr as the newest member of the PRSB partner community. Their cloud-based care management platform supports domiciliary care providers, bringing together key areas such as rostering, care planning, eMAR, visit tracking, invoicing, payroll, recruitment and reporting in one system. We spoke with Skedulr co-founder Kamran Yousaf about the partnership and the importance for them of strong alignment with recognised standards. 👉 Read more: hubs.li/Q04dkR9T0

Great to announce at the end of this week that we have another supplier achieving conformance with our social care standards, the About Me and Personalised Care and Support Plan. OneAdvanced provides an ERP platform that helps care providers streamline operations, improve efficiency and manage services more effectively. This achievement demonstrates their commitment to delivering digital solutions that meet national standards, support integrated care, and put individuals at the centre of care. Congratulations to the team at OneAdvanced! Read more: hubs.li/Q04dk-Tx0 #SocialCare #DigitalHealth #CareTech #Standards #PersonCentredCare

We’re delighted to welcome CACI as our latest Quality Partner to achieve conformance with the Personalised Care and Support Plan (PCSP) Standard for their Certa Care Management System. Care providers using Certa can be confident their system meets a nationally recognised standard for sharing digital care plans with individuals, families and other professionals - keeping the focus on the person. We spoke to the team at CACI about their achievement, including their experience of the conformance process and what it means for their customers. Read the full article here: hubs.li/Q04bnjSr0 #CarePlanning #Interoperability #HealthAndCare #DigitalHealth

This week, we’re shining a spotlight on our valued partner, SOS Care Management System! SOS Care Management System is an all-in-one digital platform designed to support care homes in the day-to-day delivery of care. From off-duty management and care recording to reporting and digital care planning, it brings everything together in one place. Their system is also fully compliant with the About Me and Personalised Care and Support Plan standards, so every person gets care that really suits them. Their system helps care home teams work more efficiently, streamlining administrative processes and meeting regulated reporting requirements, including those set by the CQC. We think that SOS enables care providers to focus more on what matters most—delivering outstanding care! hubs.li/Q04b8Q-K0 Find out more about the PRSB partnership scheme: hubs.li/Q04b8PKr0 #CareManagement #DigitalHealth #SocialCare #Partnerships

Our latest newsletter highlights new standards in obstetric anaesthetics and epilepsy, plus updates to the NHS Health Check Standard and new work to improve access to diabetes device data. Never miss important updates from us, including latest standards developments and consultations, events, partner news and more. Latest newsletter: hubs.li/Q049QqFZ0 Sign up to receive updates: 🔗hubs.li/Q049PQ9r0 #socialcare #digitalhealth #digitalcare

⭐PRSB Quality Partner spotlight! Great to see Birdie renewing their partnership with us for another year. Birdie equips domiciliary care providers with digital tools to manage, grow and deliver outstanding care. Operating across the UK and Europe, the B Corp certified company was also recognised as one of the top Home Health Tech providers in the 150 Most Innovative Digital Health start ups of 2021. Birdie is conformant with PRSB's About Me and Personalised Care and Support Plan Standards. If your organisation is interested in partnering with us, you will join a community working to make better data the foundation of safer, more joined up health and care. 🔗 hubs.li/Q046V-p80 🔗 Find our more about joining us - hubs.li/Q046VVkq0

Join us on 28 April for our next Clinical Safety Officer training course. Delivered in partnership with Ethos and led by experienced Clinical Safety Officers from nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy backgrounds, this focused, practical programme will equip you to: • Clearly distinguish between standards and medical device regulation • Get hands on experience in identifying and evaluating hazards • Understand how to apply effective risk controls and measurement • Navigate safety reports and the review process with confidence • Strengthen your knowledge of DCB 0129 and DCB 0160 compliance If you are working with digital systems in health and care, this course provides the insight and practical skills to support safer services. Find out more and book your place. hubs.li/Q045mr0N0 #clinicalsafety #clinicalsafetyofficer #CSO #digitalhealth #digitalcare #patientsafety

🌟 We are proud to spotlight our Quality Partner, StoriiCare! StoriiCare provides care management software used across the UK, USA, Australia and beyond. Designed to be flexible and easy to use, the platform helps care providers improve compliance and quality of care while supporting busy staff in their day to day work. Conformant with our About Me and Personalised Care and Support Plan standards, StoriiCare helps teams cut down on paperwork by streamlining documentation and daily tasks. Digital care records and built in analytics also make it easier to get real value from data. StoriiCare supports providers to deliver more personalised, high quality care to the people they support. Find out more: hubs.li/Q044mDPk0

Happy Monday. The sun is shining and we are starting the week with some good news! We are delighted to be launching a new phase of work to improve diabetes data sharing from self-management devices. Devices that monitor and manage glucose levels can improve control, confidence and quality of life. However, this data is not consistently shared between systems, making it hard for health professionals to access and use in care. This project will explore how patient generated data from glucose monitors and insulin pumps can be safely integrated into electronic health records. We will be working closely with clinicians, service users, industry, our members and partners, and will consult widely as the work progresses. If you would like to contribute or stay informed, it would be great to hear from you. Find out more: hubs.li/Q0438w-C0 #DigitalHealth #Diabetes #Interoperability #HealthTech #DataSavesLives

🌟 Partner Spotlight: Person Centred Software! We’re starting the week by shining a spotlight on our quality partner, Person Centred Software (PCS). PCS supports 8,400 care homes, helping deliver personalised, connected care. Their Digital Care Planning System is fully aligned with our About Me and Personalised Care and Support Plan standards With over 20 years’ experience, PCS has been improving lives in social care through digital innovation, and we’re proud to have them as one of our partners! Read more about PCS: hubs.li/Q0425L_j0 Find out more about the standards: About Me: hubs.li/Q0425LWQ0 Personalised Care and Support Plan: hubs.li/Q0425LZB0 #SocialCare #DigitalCare #CareManagement #PersonalisedCare @Person Centred Software Ltd

The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare is bringing together global AI leaders, clinicians and regulators to support the development of a new AI regulatory framework and will make recommendations to the MHRA in 2026. We responded this week to the Commission’s Call for Evidence, setting out our view that data quality must come first. High quality, standardised data is essential for safe, effective and interoperable AI. In our response, we recommend: • Compliance with recognised health information standards for AI • An accelerator approach to bring industry and professional bodies together to agree care processes and clinical safety guard rails • Information standards that evolve in step with AI • Transparent, explainable AI systems so decisions can be understood, challenged or overridden where necessary Read our full response here: hubs.ly/Q041_dPb0 #AI #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #DataQuality

RCGP is calling for urgent GP IT investment ahead of Scottish election The Royal College of General Practitioners has urged the next Scottish Government to prioritise updated IT software and hardware for general practice. Findings from an RCGP member survey conducted in August 2025 highlight significant concerns about the state of current systems. • 45% of GPs said their hardware is not fit for purpose • 53% said their software is not fit for purpose • 55% said their systems are not capable of effectively exchanging information with secondary care or community pharmacists The College warns that outdated hardware, unreliable software and poor interoperability are contributing to inefficiencies and adding pressure in general practice. Read the RCGP Scotland manifesto here - hubs.li/Q041K4yR0

🌟 Partner spotlight! Nourish Care We love working with partners who really care about making digital work for people, and Nourish Care has been doing exactly that as one of our very first partners! They were the first provider to become conformant against a PRSB standard, and have since completed conformance for About Me, the Personalised Care and Support Plan, and the Urgent Transfer of Care standard. As Nourish Care put it: “For us, being a PRSB partner means having a commitment to supporting the care sector in making the most of digital, making care personal, using tools that are empowering, enabling social care to achieve readiness to operate as part of integrated systems of care provision alongside their partners in health, in a landscape where key information is shared to improve outcomes for people” Thank you to the Nourish team for your continued commitment to high quality, shareable care information. Find out more at hubs.li/Q040_vzx0 #DigitalSocialCare #Interoperability #PersonalisedCare

Great AI event last week, and thank you again to everyone who joined us! If you couldn't attend or would to share it with colleagues, the recording is now available. hubs.li/Q040RQy90 The panel focused on how clinical AI works with unstructured data, the role of standards in enabling structured and shareable information, and how the regulatory and compliance landscape for clinical AI is evolving. Panellists also discussed which frameworks matter most for patient safety, alongside the practical opportunities and challenges organisations face as AI becomes more widely used in clinical settings. Follow us for details of future events in this series.

It’s our AI event tomorrow, and this felt like a great video to share alongside the discussion. So will AI replace your doctor? In this short film from The Lancet, leading experts explore the potential of AI, as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents for care and research. ▶️ hubs.li/Q03_gYj-0 Still time to sign up to our discussion: hubs.li/Q03_gYPH0

Sharing this as it will be of interest to many across our PRSB community! Our member, BCS, is hosting a webinar next week (22 Jan) with the UK FHIR Board focused on the Minimum Operational Data Standard (MODS) for adult social care. 👉 Find out more and book your place here hubs.li/Q03-YytQ0 For background MODS reading this short blog is a good place to start: hubs.li/Q03-Ys0Z0 #AdultSocialCare #DataStandards #Interoperability #DigitalHealth #HealthInformatics #SocialCareData