Book your place now! | Improving medicines data across health and social care We’re delighted to welcome Dr Melanie Ivarsson, CEO of the Health Data Research Service (HDRS), as our keynote speaker. Melanie has a background in neuroscience research and medicines development and led the creation of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine against Covid-19. Event details: 📅 Thursday 12 November 2026 📍 Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ 🕚 11.00am refreshments and arrival | 11.30am to 1.00pm AGM | 1.00pm networking | 1.30pm close The event is free to attend, but registration is required. 👉 Register now: hubs.li/Q04BPWld0

This looks really interesting! Our member, BCS Health and Care, is hosting a free webinar next week looking at how AI could support people with managing their health between clinical appointments. The webinar will explore how agentic AI can combine trusted medical knowledge, validated models and an individual's own health data to provide more personalised support. The discussion will look at how Conversational Health Agents are built using openCHA, an open-source framework developed at the UCI Institute for Future Health, with examples including ChatDiet and an agent for diabetes management. 👉 Find out more and book here: hubs.li/Q04xYYW00

We’re delighted to announce that Dedalus is our first Partner to achieve Level 3 conformance, the highest level, for its One Response Mobile & One Response Management system against the Ambulance Handover to Emergency Care Standard, developed by PRSB for NHS England. Mark Rearden, Director of Digital Solutions, Dedalus UKI, said: "Healthcare transformation depends on trusted standards and seamless information sharing. Achieving PRSB Ambulance Handover Conformance reinforces our commitment to helping healthcare organisations connect people, systems, and data to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians alike.” We’ve really enjoyed working with the Dedalus team and look forward to sharing more about this achievement soon. Read more about the standard here: hubs.li/Q04x6tB70 #NHS #AmbulanceServices #HealthTech #Interoperability

We had a great discussion at last week's PRSB Advisory Board meeting, with members joining us to explore some of the biggest opportunities and challenges facing digital health and care. We heard two excellent presentations during the meeting that we felt would be of interest to our wider community, so we're pleased to share the recordings. A particular highlight was hearing from Dr Michael McCabe about the #CallMe campaign, which encourages healthcare organisations to routinely ask people what they would like to be called. It's a simple change that can have a significant impact on patient experience, dignity and safety. We also heard from PRSB Executive Clinical Director Dr Nilesh Bharakhada, who shared insights into the rapid growth of Ambient Voice Technology (AVT). As adoption accelerates across the NHS, ensuring safe, consistent implementation through information standards will be essential to maintaining record quality, interoperability and patient safety. 🎥 Watch the presentations: 🔹 #CallMe – Because Names Matter: hubs.li/Q04r6JS90 🔹 Ambient Voice Technology (AVT): hubs.li/Q04r6w340 The meeting also included an update on PRSB's wider work programme, including support for Connected Medication Management, diabetes device interoperability, the Single National Formulary and health apps standards harmonisation. A big thank you to everyone who joined the discussion and shared their questions and perspectives. #DigitalHealth #PatientSafety #Interoperability#DataStandards #AmbientVoiceTechnology #CallMe

Our latest newsletter looks at the growing role of ambient voice technology, how automated medicines management is helping improve efficiency and patient safety, and why service user voices are central to developing standards. We also share news from our Partnership Scheme, #CallMe campaign and upcoming events. Never miss important updates from us, including latest standards developments and consultations, events, partner news and more. Latest newsletter: hubs.li/Q04phrP50 Sign up to receive updates: 🔗hubs.li/Q04phw8q0 #socialcare #digitalhealth #digitalcare

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 - [email protected]. 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