Digital Transfers of Care
14 May 2025
Practice and Business Management Programme
High volumes of patients are transferred every day between health and care settings. However, their information does not always flow smoothly between those settings, resulting in errors, delays, duplication of tests, and not receiving timely and effective treatment. PRSB's eDischarge Summary Standard and work on Transfers of Care enables hospitals to safely transfer accurate clinical information and coded data to GP surgeries, care homes and community services when a patient is discharged, improving the quality and consistency of care. Dr Nilesh Bharakhada, GP and Executive Clinical Director at PRSB, will showcase the opportunity and update on a pilot project which aims to support the digital transfer of structured information from hospital to General Practice on discharge.