PPP043 - Improving Communication for Patients with Janelle Penno

Jane and Dan spoke to Janelle Penno, Perioperative Medicine Pharmacist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Janelle's paper "Improving Medication Labelling - Patients Driving Their Information" was awarded best paper at the MM2017 conference in November.

We spoke to Janelle about: Patients' preferences for medicine instructions Principles of Plain English communication Useful resources to help improve the way that health professionals communicate with their patients