UCL and Lancaster University officially join IC4CH
In a series of events in the United Kingdom initially planned for the summer of 2020, the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare (IC4CH) has formally welcomed two…
ICH and CHF webinar: 'The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care'
On 25 May 2022, the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care proudly joined with the Consumer Health Forum of Australia (Australia's national peak body for healthcare consumers) to present…
Communication the key to a correct diagnosis: ICH research in the media
A new study in Diagnosis, ‘Diagnostic statements: a linguistic analysis of how clinicians communicate diagnosis’, reveals doctors who got the diagnosis wrong spent less time listening to their…
New ICH research on nursing handover: Nurses at end-of-shift face greater personal and health systems barriers to engaging patients
A new study, ‘Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers’ in English for Specific Purposes, reveals that outgoing and incoming nurses communicate differently in…
A new ICH opinion piece: ‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors
A new opinion piece, "‘More than words’ – Interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors" in Patient Education and Counselling, discusses how communication and cognitive bias can…
Impact of COVID-19 on health communication: webinar with the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care
The Institute for Communication in Health Care hosted our second successful webinar on 23 September as part of the announcement of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH…
Effective Communication saves lives: webinar hosted by the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care
On 26 August Professor Diana Slade was joined by five other ANU experts to discuss the importance of communication in health care. Facilitated by Professor Paul Pickering (Director of the Research…