New report highlights the importance of high quality patient information

ELFy welcomes today's launch of the 'Perfect Patient Information Journey' - a report published by the Patient Information Forum (PIF). This represents the culmination of a comprehensive project which aimed to move beyond encouraging rhetoric towards real progress, by creating a model of what successful access to information looks like in practice and testing this out in a clinical setting.

The report identifies 7 key steps for health services to improve information for the 15m+ people with long term conditions.  As Sue Farrington, Chair of the PIF, comments in the Foreword to the report:  "Ensuring people are well informed about their health condition, their treatments
and choices, and what they can do to stay healthy is of huge benefit to patients, improves outcomes and helps to relieve pressure on the health service.1 These are all points endorsed in the recent NICE ‘Shared Decision-Making Collaborative, A Consensus Statement’.

https://www.pifonline.org.uk