Castletownroche native shortlisted for National Health Literacy Award

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Castletownroche native shortlisted for National Health Literacy Award

Castletownroche native, Dr Bridget Maher has been given national recognition for her outstanding efforts to communicate with patients in a crystal clear way.

Sunday, 21 April 2013
12:00 AM GMT



Castletownroche native, Dr Bridget Maher who works in University College Cork (UCC), has been given national recognition for her outstanding efforts to communicate with patients in a crystal clear way.

Bridget, from University College Cork, has been shortlisted for her initiative 'CLAS – a mobile application' in the sixth annual Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards in the 'Best Project in a General Practice' category. As a result of being shortlisted, Bridget will be invited to attend the Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards Ceremony in Dublin on Monday, 13th May.

The hospital discharge letter is one of the most important communications in healthcare. General Practitioners rely on the discharge letter to provide them with the information necessary for safe handover of patient care. This information needs to be accurate, reliable and relevant. In response to this, UCC School of Medicine developed The Cork Letter–Writing Assessment Scale (CLAS) to teach medical students how to write discharge letters and to improve the quality of hospital discharge letters.

Using mobile app technology, CLAS is a step by step checklist of content listed in the same order it should ideally appear in the letter. As a result of the new mobile application, the quality of discharge letters was significantly higher in the medical students who had used CLAS compared to those who had not used it.

Bridget's entry is one of almost 130 received this year across the healthcare sector including GPs, nurses, practice managers, physiotherapists, and hospital catering managers.



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