We have been discussing and defining the issues of communicating research to policymakers makers. We should report our findings and considerations and recommendation in a short paper that can be read in 30 minutes and that does not include specialist jargon.
The writers if the report could try to envision what the solutions are as much or more than what the problems are.
Although Sage had difficulties at time during Covid, I thought that the daily briefings with the prime minister and chief medical officer and ANother were a pretty perfect way of communicating policy?
I thought that General Practice failed absolutely to communicate the difficulties that it was facing as it went along especially as 66 million citizens had been using General Practice and A and E as a main doorway to
free access to healthcare at the point of service.
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HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data
Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com