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After analysing 60+ leaflets, working in healthcare 15 yrs and being a patient advocate for many years, here's the thread with 23 poster visuals all hospitals can do to empower patients to lead on their care. Fully educating, empowering and encouraging patients can save lives 👇 
1/23 Let’s start with falls. Do all patients know what to do to prevent a fall? Do they know an assessment is done? They don’t need an overly complicated leaflet, they just need to know what to do and what is done. Simple = more people will understand it #FallsAwarenessWeek
2/23 Let’s move to hand hygiene. We have reports, targets, audits and working groups for this; but again, do patients know what we are aiming for? Do they know when to challenges us and what hand hygiene means? After all it’s for them we do it... #infectioncontrol
