Anyone can have problems understanding and accessing health information. This could include information about medication, appointments, treatment or their health conditions, as well as the format information is provided in, for example by letter, email and online.
Designed to help people navigate healthcare information, the simply explained guides could help them get the treatment they need and want and get the answers they need to understand information they are given.
Accessible Information Standard
This easy-read guide explains the Accessible Information Standard, which says that people who have a disability or sensory loss should get information in a way they can access and understand.
Learning Disability and Autism
Get ready to talk about your health prepares people for what to do before they go for a consultation with any health or care provider. It includes important information about their rights and what they can ask for, such as information in different formats, help to understand information provided or physical help to get to and from appointments.
British Sign Language signed content
To help increase the accessibility of our screening programme information, new British Sign Language (BSL) videos have been developed and are now available on GOV.UK for both the NHS Breast Screening Programme and NHS Cervical Screening Programme.
Based on the ‘Your guide to’ screening programme leaflets, these videos cover information on how the individual screening programmes work, who we offer screening to and why, what to expect at your appointment and with your results. They are available at:
NHS Breast Screening Programme
NHS Cervical Screening Programme
The videos complement existing accessible information for both screening programmes, including easy read guide BSP and easy read guide CSP and translations of the ‘Your guide to’ leaflets in 30 languages, see below.
Easy Read News tells you about what NHS England is doing to make the NHS better for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
Routine Screening
Bowel screening
Cervical screening
Diabetic eye screening
Abdominal aortic screening
Breast screening
Hospital Tests
Having a biopsy
Having a colonoscopy
Having a CT scan
Having an endoscopy
Having examinations and blood tests
Having an MRI scan
Having an ultrasound
Having an x-ray
Having a colonoscopy
Having a bowel CTC scan
Pregnancy
Eye screening for women with diabetes
Scan of your baby’s body
Looking at your baby’s hearing
Blood spot tests
Screening for hepatitis B,HIV and syphilis
Screening for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia
Screening for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome
LGBT+
NHS Screening Guidance for trans patients
Easy Read /Translated Information
Child immunisation schedule 2022
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dari, Estonian, Farsi, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Panjabi, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romany, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Yiddish and Yoruba.
What to expect after COVID-19 vaccination
English, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Lithuanian, Panjabi, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese.