1. Health Literacy – What Next?
Blythe Robertson
Policy Lead, Scottish Government

4. Integrated health and social care
Palliative and End of Life Care
Cancer
Diabetes Improvement Plan
Shared decision making
Long Term Conditions
Collaborative
Conversations
Self Management Support
Self Directed Support
Primary Care Transformation and New Models
Integrated health and social care

5. Timeline Action Plan published June 2014
Demonstrator started March 2015
Health Literacy Place launched October 2015
Demonstrator reporting from September 2016
Timeline

6. What next? Commitment in Health and Social Care Delivery plan:
Strengthening relationships between professionals and individuals. In 2017, we will:
Refresh our Health Literacy Plan, Making It Easy, to support everyone in Scotland to have the confidence, knowledge, understanding and skills we need to live well with any health condition we have.

7. Some early ideas
Spread and scale-up of work to date – particularly the demonstrator!
Support for Realising Realistic Medicine and its shared-decision making aim
Spread lessons beyond health sector
Pharmacy information and medicines labelling
Greater emphasis on “health literacy by design”

8. 3 steps for implementation
Product design 1
Miracle 2
“Scaled up” 3

9. 3 steps for implementation
A need identified
Planned, structured, resourced and co-developed for success 1
Embedded in
the system 2 3

10. What next? ?

11. Thank you! Blythe Robertson, Scottish Government
@healthlitplace