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VENUE:     Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS), 349 Bath Street, Glasgow, SCOTLAND G2 4AA

The Health Literacy Group UK invites you to join us for this one-day seminar where we will focus on Health Literacy in Scotland led by the Scottish Health Literacy Action Group (NHLAG). The seminar is free to HL group members & £25 to non- members.

Health literacy is defined as ‘the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health’.

This seminar is central to the aims of the Health Literacy Group (UK):

1. 1. To build a ‘critical mass’ of stakeholders interested in Heath Literacy (HL) research in the UK

2. To share skills, experience and ideas
3. To develop the evidence base for Health Literacy.

What will the seminar cover?

• NHS Scotland Quality Strategy and Health Literacy Driver Diagram
• Health Literacy research in Scotland
• Health Literacy in Primary Care, in the Acute Sector and in long term conditions
• Health Literacy in the community
• Health Literacy resources (Learning is Good for Your Health pack )

Who might attend?

Anyone with an interest in developing the evidence base for the importance of health literacy in improving patients’ access, understanding and use of health care services. This will include researchers and PhD students working in this or related fields, and health and educational professionals interested in developing and piloting interventions to raise the level of health literacy to support the health and well-being of different groups.

The Health Literacy Group UK is grateful for support from our sponsors MSD. MSD provided a generous grant for Major Annual Sponsorship of the UK Health Literacy Group to support annual conference, ongoing seminar series and the infrastructure costs of running the group. MSD is a global healthcare leader working to address unmet health needs. The company is known as Merck in the United States and Canada.