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Record the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care. This information might include how best to communicate with the person, how to help them feel at ease or details about how they like to take their medication.
About this standard
- Owner
- Professional Record Standards Body
- Status
- Active
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Active standards are stable, maintained and have been assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Standards in development are APIs or API standards in alpha or beta, meaning they are available for use but are still in progress and may change.
Deprecated standards are older versions of a standard which are being phased out.
Retired standards are not being maintained and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Record standards
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Record standards define what information to collect and how to format it, for example when registering a new patient.
Data definitions and terminologies define the format of individual data items so they can be consistently represented, for example dates or medication names. Reference sets and controlled lists are also included.
Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
Information codes of practice are legal or best practice guidelines on how information should be handled.
- Contact details
- support@theprsb.org
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Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Referrals
- Demographics
- Key care information
- Prescribing
- Patient communication
- Information governance
- Tests and diagnostics
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- GP / Primary care
- Social care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
This standard needs to be reviewed and implemented alongside Shared Care Record or other infrastructure.
- Related standards
Part of a wider set of national standards published by PRSB for sharing information between health and social care. This includes:
- Care homes view of shared care records
- Core Information Standard (CIS)
- Hospital referral for assessment for community care and support
- Information provided by local authorities in shared care records
- DAPB4022: Personalised care and Support Plan
- Urgent transfer from care home to hospital
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Assurance and endorsements
- Reference code for standards issued as requirements in England
- None - not legally mandated
- Quality assurance
This standard has been clinically, professionally and technically assured by the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB).
- Endorsements
This standard has been endorsed by the following organisations:
- Association for Real Change
- Associated Retirement Community Operators
- British Association for Music Therapy
- British Dietetic Association
- British Geriatrics Society
- British Psychological Society
- Care Provider Alliance
- Care Software Providers Association (CASPA)
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Compassion in Dying
- Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
- Institute of Health Records and Information Management
- Local Government Association
- National Data Guardian
- Patient Information Forum
- Resuscitation Council UK
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Occupational Therapists
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Page last updated: 25 November 2022