LibGuides: Health Literacy: Accessible and easy read resources

Accessible and easy read resources

Easy read 3 questions for better health
Co-designed with people with a learning
disability and autistic people in collaboration
with IC Works and funded by Health
Education England, 2022.
Easy ready - getting ready for a talk about your health
Co-designed with people with a learning
disability and autistic people in collaboration
with IC Works and funded by Health
Education England, 2022.

Plain English Campaign

Accessible and easy read resources

Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Books Beyond Words
Improving health care for patients with learning disabilities and/or autism

Good communication is at the heart of safe, effective and compassionate health care.

Books Beyond Words offer an accessible, evidence-based reasonable adjustment that can improve communication between health care professionals and patients with learning disabilities and/or autism.

Talking through the pictures in a Beyond Words story together enables health professionals to find out what their patient understands and how they feel about a situation. It allows patients to lead the conversation at their own pace, ask appropriate questions and share any concerns. This in turn enables professionals to provide appropriate information and reassurance and obtain truly informed consent.
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Browse health information in multiple languages, arranged by language. You can also browse this information by health topic. - Medline
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How To Make Information Accessible
This guide provides clear guidelines on
producing documents and information
in accessible, easy to read words
and pictures for professionals and
organisations. We hope that you will
make your information more accessible
for people with learning disabilities
and others who may find it useful. We
also want you to encourage other
organisations to make their information
accessible.

Patient Information

A-Z of NHS writing
Words and phrases we use to make our content about health and the NHS easy to understand.
Patient Information Forum - PIF
The Patient Information Forum (PIF) was formed in 1997, under the auspices of The King’s Fund, by a small group of patient information professionals who wanted to support each other and share best practice. Today PIF represents hundreds of members working in more than 300 organisations.

For more than two decades we have provided guidance to raise standards and campaigned to improve access to health information. We have played an essential role in the development of policy and expertise on user involvement, health literacy, shared decision-making, patient experience and reducing health inequalities.
Easy Health
Easy Health stores over 390 accessible health resources.
They are made for anyone who finds written information hard to understand (including people with learning disabilities), so they can make decisions about their own lives.
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Making information easier for everyone
Manchester People First is a self-advocacy group for adults
with a learning disability.
We have written this guide as part of our ‘Join Us, Join In’ project
to make it easier for people with a learning disability to take part
in meetings. The Ambition for Ageing Equalities Board have
funded the project.
The guide is for people who work with organisations who run
meetings and anyone else who wants to make their written
information easier to understand
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Accessible and easy read resources

Health Literacy - How to Guide
The purpose of this guide is to describe the practical tools
and techniques that practitioners, in a variety of settings, can
implement to enhance approaches and practice in a way that
effectively supports people with low levels of health literacy.
The guide also contains some wider background to health
literacy.
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Mencap - health guides
Health guides
At Mencap, we aim to make sure that all people with a learning disability get the same access to healthcare and treatment as everybody else.

Find out about hospital passports, summary care records and how to protect yourself from flu this winter.
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Plain English Campaign

Health Literacy

Accessible and easy read resources

Accessible and easy read resources

Accessible and easy read resources

Patient Information

Accessible and easy read resources

To view the HEE accessibility statement click here