Education and training
Introduction
In recent years the importance of providing effective and high-quality patient information has become more and more apparent and with it there has been a rise in the number of people working in health information roles. We have explored a number of courses which offer a recognised qualification in communication, library and information studies or health informatics, but none cover the precise knowledge and skill mix required by people in patient information services roles.
We hope, in the future, a qualification for health information professionals working with patient information would:
- Show potential employers, colleagues and the public that an individual has a certain level of expertise
- Add value and weight to the roles for which the qualification is relevant
- Help to standardise approaches to health information provision and provide a nationwide standard of quality.
Meanwhile, this theme aims to highlight existing training and education products which may be of value to health information professionals.
Page last edited: 09 March 2011
