Tag Archives: European Health Literacy Survey

Health professionals such as doctors and nurses need to use “much more simple language” with patients than is sometimes the case, according to a health literacy expert.

Pat Kelly speaks with Dr Brendan Clune, GP spokesperson for the MSD Health Literacy campaign, about how improving health literacy in general practice can positively influence patient care.

A recent European Health Literacy conference showed some reasons to be cheerful for Ireland, but also some worrying results from the first European Health Literacy Survey.