A Patient Passport gives a patient their information in one place. The patient gives their doctors access to their Passport. Inspired by a real travel passport, a Patient Passport should work seamlessly, and be valid across any healthcare institution: general practice, hospitals, pharmacies, and social care.

The Times Health Commission formalised the concept as a national health record solution. On February 4th 2024, the Commission presented a ‘report into the state of health and social care of Britain today’..  Core to this was the creation of a ‘Patient Passport’.  

It proposed that a passport could be accessed through England’s NHS App - highlighting the benefits of data from non-NHS healthcare providers. 

PKB organises all data about an individual into a single, longitudinal record - a passport - for the patient to access anywhere, anytime throughout life. This is part of PKB’s functionality as a personal health record (PHR). Established as a Social Enterprise in 2008, today PKB is Europe’s largest PHR. Today it integrates data feeds from 100% of England’s GPs, 25% of the UK’s hospitals and 100,000 new patients every month.  

Every patient’s PKB record centres around the patient, independent  of any organisation. PKB’s technology  enables integration from multiple sources, meaning public and private parties can contribute to a citizen’s care,  including the patient themselves. This delivers a holistic understanding of an individual’s health.  

As part of our  mission, PKB advocates for patient ownership of their health passport.  Ownership is empowerment. It also reduces risks for governments .

With the deepest existing integration into England’s  NHS App, Wales’s NHS Wales App and the Netherland’s MedMij, PKB is already releasing 20 million test results every month to patients. It is a proven, scalable national passport solution. 

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