PRSB: An introduction to completing a discharge summary (14 September 2018)

Summary

Discharge summaries help to maintain safe care as patients move from the hospital to the community setting and help to make sure the right information is exchanged to make care safe. The information needs to be easy to find and digest. The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has helped to produce a set of standards that makes it easy to complete a discharge summary containing the right information that can then easily be found by the GP to ensure all the right things are then picked up.