Sharing information for health and social care

Information Partnership Training
for shared decisions in health and social care 8
Quick quiz: Sharing information
1 What practical skills and abilities do you need to share
information effectively? Use the phrases which follow to
complete the sentences below.
1. Listen
2. Identify
3. Organise
4. Explain
5. Check
a) the information people need
b) people understand the information
c) attentively without interrupting
d) information clearly
e) materials and keep them up to date
2 Which of the following would you consider suitable
personal qualities for someone sharing information?
Write YES or NO for each.
a) Someone who shows respect
b) Someone who tells you what to do
c) Someone you can trust
d) Someone who doesn’t judge you
e) Someone who shows bias
3 Please complete the following statements using the
words below:
• practical skills & abilities
• attitudes and values
• self awareness
• communication
a) You need to share information
effectively.
b) How you value people and your attitudes towards
them are also really important. We can learn to be
more aware of our own
and the impact these can have.
c) We can develop our of how
we feel about people who we see as ‘different’ from
ourselves.
d) It is useful to remember that
is a two way process. The person asking for
information may also be making assumptions about
you and this may be affecting the communication.
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Sharing information for health and social care
For further information and advice please contact:
Knowledge Services Group, NHS Education for Scotland, 1 Clifton Place, Glasgow G3 7 LD • Tel: 0141 352 2800
email: knowledge@nes.scot.nhs.uk • www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home/portals-and-topics/information-partnership.aspx