43% of English working-age adults do not have the health literacy skills to routinely understand health information (61% if this includes or involves numbers).

According to the Royal College of General Practitioners, health information is ‘too complex’ for more than 60% of working age adults to understand, which means that they are unable to effectively understand and use health information. Those with lower levels of health literacy are more likely to suffer from health inequalities that lead to the poorest health outcomes.
Here are the links to a new health literacy toolkit, produced as a partnership between NHS England, Public Health England, Health Education England and the Community Health and Learning Foundation and launched today.
 
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/hospitals-primary-community-care/population-health-prevention/health-literacy/health-literacy-toolkit
 
News item:
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/toolkit-launched-tackle-low-health-literacy
 

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Today Health Education England (HEE) has published Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future – a health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027. Attached you will find our on the day briefing summarising the key announcements.
 
This is a draft version of the workforce strategy and is now open for consultation until Friday 23 March 2018. Regional meetings and webinars will be offered by HEE among other ways to contribute. We will submit a formal response and will engage with you on this in the New Year. The final version of the strategy will then be published in July 2018.
 
In the meantime, if you have any initial views on the draft strategy or on the questions that HEE plans to consult on, please do get in touch as we would be very happy to receive your input. To share your views please contact Paul Myatt, policy advisor (workforce) Paul.Myatt@nhsproviders.org. Alternatively you can respond directly to: consultation.hee.nhs.uk.  

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