Benefits for you and your family
When the need arises for you to understand a change in you or your family's health or social care circumstances it is important that you have confidence in the information you're researching.
The Information Standard helps you to quickly identify reliable sources of quality evidence-based health and social care information through an easily recognisable quality mark.
It helps enable you to:
- Have confidence in the health or social care information you read and feel empowered to make the right choices
- Gain a greater understanding of the healthcare choices available to you
- Make informed decisions about your health and care that are right for you and your family
- Have greater control over your care pathway
- Reduce health risks that may be caused by misinformation.
By having confidence in the information available you can be much better placed to influence those that deliver your health and social care needs and ensure you receive better treatment and care.
Last updated: 19/01/2012
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Testimonial
It has been a really interesting process for us as an organisation and for me personally - we feel it has had a positive effect on us as a team. It's also good to be part of a scheme that will help people identify high quality information. Anna Lebowitz, MacMillan Cancer Support.