Sue Lacey Bryant, Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Information Mobilisation at Manchester Metropolitan University joins Tara to discuss health literacy and its impact on healthcare outcomes.

They explore the definition of health literacy and the skills and confidence needed to navigate the healthcare system.

Highlights include:

The barriers faced by individuals with low health literacy, such as difficulty understanding written health information and communicating with healthcare professionals.
Sue emphasises the importance of addressing health literacy at both the organisational and individual level.
Sue shares examples of initiatives and partnerships aimed at improving health literacy.
The role of knowledge services in supporting evidence-informed decision making and the need for co-designing patient information materials.

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I'm Tara Humphrey and I'm the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I've worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 120 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations.

I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices.

I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I'm also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs.

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