PiF Health Literacy Report - page 2

2 Health literacy and health information producers
The Patient Information Forum (PiF)
is the organisation for people working in
consumer health information. PiF campaigns
to ensure that consumer health information
is central to high quality, patient-centred care
and helps providers develop high quality
information for their patients and the public.
PiF(www.pifonline.org.uk) is a not-for-
profit, independent organisation with
members in all healthcare sectors and in
every country in the UK.
Thanks go to the following people who
reviewed and commented on the survey
design and questions:
• Professor Theo Raynor
Professor of Pharmacy Practice at
University of Leeds, UK and Director,
Luto Research Ltd
• Dr Angela Coulter
Senior Research Scientist at University
of Oxford Department of Public Health
and Director of Global Initiatives at the
Foundation for Informed Medical
Decision Making
• Jonathan Berry
Director at Community Health and
Learning Foundation
• Janet Solla
Director at Community Health and
Learning Foundation
Credits Contents
Executive summary ........................................................... 3
Context ............................................................................................ 5
The survey ................................................................................... 8
Headline results ......................................................................... 10
Full results .................................................................................... 11
Where next? .................................................................................. 21
References ...................................................................................... 22
This project has been supported
by an educational grant fromMSD
and the secondment of A K Gilbert,
researcher and employee of MSD.