Communicating Prescribing Decisions with Patients and Professional Colleagues

About this activity

This session discusses what information about prescribed medicines should be shared with both patients and colleagues. It touches on barriers to effective communication, and potential strategies to overcome these. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to: List the important information that patients should be told about their medicines Explain some of the barriers to effective information transfer and how they can be overcome in practice Explain how to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals about prescribing decisions