Helping to make care better connected

By Lizzie Cernik, Communications officer, The Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB)

Lizzie's blog talks about Simone 

Let me introduce you to Simone Illger. Simone has helped us to support the development of the ‘About Me’ section of our website - in a person’s care record. She’s been sharing what she feels is important to her. She has had experience using social care and health services for most of her adult life, after her development was affected by the drug Thalidomide before birth.  

Simone says she’s always been fiercely independent. Her house has great adaptations to help her to live comfortably, but Simone says that when she leaves the house, she can lose her independence. Simone’s very confident and will ask someone in a shop to reach something that she wants but she wants more from society! She talks about being invited to a meeting but the button in the car park she was told to park in was out of reach. She had to rely on the kindness of strangers to help her out. Simone goes on to talk about hospital admissions. She prefers it when medial professionals try to find out about her. Simone wants to live in a world where assumptions aren’t made about her disability.  

Simone’s story on YouTube 

Co-production Week 2020 

The About Me section forms part of the new standards that the Professional Record Standards Body are developing, that will help to support better information sharing between social care and health. This in turn will lead to more connected services and more personalised care and wellbeing that can be tailored to each individual.

The PRSB is currently seeking more opinions from social workers, health and care professions, informal carers and people who use services. As well as 'About Me', we are looking for views on other areas of information sharing in social care and health, including transfers of care and what is needed in an emergency or when a referral is made. 

We'd like to invite you to complete these two short surveys on social care information. There is also an easy read version of the survey, as well as support materials to help people who have difficulty reading to complete it. 

Please help us to bridge the gaps between social care and health to deliver a better future for everyone who needs to use services. 

See also 
Using standards to make care safer and more personalised - By Professor Maureen Baker CBE, Chair, Professional Record Standards Body