Developing an information prescription service.
BACKGROUND
Availability and accessibility of high-quality information is inconsistent nationally and improving information is central to Department of Health policy. This article outlines an information prescription (IP) pilot.


OBJECTIVE
Using a quality-improvement cycle, feedback was gathered from stakeholders to develop an IP service for people with Parkinson's disease and their relatives/carers.


CONCLUSIONS
Generally, service users were satisfied with the information and felt it enabled them to better understand, manage and be in control of their condition. Despite initial concerns, health staff identified benefits to themselves and patients. Barriers to implementing IPs were discussed.
Hand
Annette
A
North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields.
Greenwell
Kate
K
Corbett
Sally
S
Walker
Richard
R
Kirrane
Helen
H
D007255:Information Services; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom