Ensuring that individuals and communities can access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health is key to health literacy. Improving people’s health literacy will enhance their ability to self-manage their health. This session will introduce the concept of health literacy, show examples of both good and bad resources providing information to patients, and demonstrate ways to help improve how information is provided to patients to allow them better control over their own health care.
To raise the understanding and knowledge of what health literacy is
and why it is important
To explore information resources that can support patients
with health related enquiries
To ensure patients understand health information clearly when it is given to them
This session supports standards from the GMC Professional Capabilities Framework;
NMC Code; GPhC Professional Standards; HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance
and Ethics, PSA Standards for Members, SfH Code of Conduct, GDC Standards and GOC
Standards of Practice
HCPC - 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1; GMC - Domains 1, 2, 4, 6, 8; GPhC - 1, 2, 3, 6;
NMC - 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.3, 7.1, 7.4; PSA – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SfH - 2.4, 3.6, 4.1, 4.3, 4.5;
GDC - 1.1.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.1;
GOC - 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 13.1; ACHCA - Expectation 2, 4; CIPD - 1.2, 2.4
