PiF East Midlands Event: Making the case for Consumer Health Information

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 12.00 – 16.00
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, NG7 2UH

The last year has seen many wide reaching changes for those working in health and consumer health information - a change of Government, a recession, funding cuts, a new White Paper that will fundamentally change the way health services work and, in England, talk of an ‘Information Revolution’. Shared decision making, choice and quality are on everyone’s agenda.

Yet, investment in the development and delivery of health information is often uncoordinated and in many cases simply not there. Integrating health information into service delivery, raising standards and understanding the impact that information has on patients are major challenges for health information professionals.

This seminar looked at how organisations across the breadth of PiF membership – local and national NHS bodies, commercial and voluntary sector – make the case for information. 

To download the agenda for the day click here

Click on the titles below to view the presentations from the event:

Raising the importance of patient information in a Trust - Laura Skaife, Associate Director of Communications, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Making the case for information - Shelly Jumbu, BootsWebMD.com Commercial Manager, boots.com and Amanda Howard, Strategy and Planning Lead, Boots Digital Marketing, boots.com

The cost of producing quality information: The Information Standard and beyond - Carla Renton, Information Manager, Psoriasis Association

Providing information – does it impact health outcomes? - Sarah Thompson, Clinical Librarian, NHS Direct


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