Helpful guides from the NHS

This NHS Document readability toolkit helps you write in a simple and clear way for the average UK reading age.

The NHS Factsheets and clarifying notes webpage offers a range of accessible information standards  to help you have conversations with residents on health-related issues. 

Highlights include:

• Identifying information and communication needs

• Sharing information and communication needs

• Meeting information and communication needs

• Using email and text messages for communicating

• Different types of accessible information and communication support and who may need them

The Readable.io website provides a text scoring tool that tells you how easy a piece of text is to read, and offers the option of different algorithms.

The NHS Confederation have created an acronym buster, which has over 1000 commonly used health care abbreviations to access when needed.