The Realising the Value consortium have published a new report At the heart of health: Realising the value of people and communities.
The report brings together evidence on what good person- and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing look like and their potentially wide-reaching benefits.
Research shows that well-informed and engaged patients are better at self management of their own conditions. Further, better self-management means fewer hospital visits, which in turn means lower healthcare costs and less call on the NHS. An integral part of better patient management is quality patient information; information that is clear, easy to understand and presented in a user friendly format. That’s where Interlagos come in.
Interlagos, in conjunction with one of the country’s most progressive NHS Foundation Trusts, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, has developed groundbreaking Patient Information Publishing Software (PIPS) that allows the trust to produce and manage over 1600 patient leaflets with just two Patient Information Administrators.
NICE has updated its guidelines pages to explain how they should be used in offering patients and service users the best care.
The new wording explains that guidelines should be taken fully into account but that the patient, or person receiving care, should be at the heart of decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of a clinician’s expertise and judgement.
Beyond Words are a publishing company that has been creating books with and for people with learning disabilities for over 25 years. They specialise in picture-based communication.
The Patient Information Forum (PIF) has published a factsheet called ‘What source when? Creating realiable and accurate information‘, that provides an introduction to the difference sources of evidence that exist, and considers what sort of source you might want to use for different sorts of health content.