Summary
Sonia Sparkles is a senior manager in healthcare who is using her artistic skills to improve the way healthcare services communicate with patients. Her goal is to empower patients to feel at ease in healthcare settings and able to fully engage in their care.
In this blog, Sonia describes how her own experience of being in hospital helped her see healthcare from a patient's perspective. While an inpatient, she felt disempowered, frightened and unable to ask the questions she wanted to. Having reviewed some NHS patient literature, Sonia realised that there was a need to find a way to communicate clearly with patients and invite them to share their concerns with healthcare staff. She produced a series of 23 posters as a starting point to get people thinking about how to communicate with patients in a simple, visual and empowering way.
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