EACH: International Association for Communication in Healthcare

EACH is a worldwide charitable organisation and our overall aim is to promote effective evidence-based patient-centred healthcare communication between patients, relatives and healthcare practitioners throughout the world.

Welcome to EACH, International Association for Communication in Healthcare. Whether you are a researcher, teacher, practitioner or patient, or indeed all four, EACH exists to offer you support and help about all matters concerning communication in healthcare. They would like you to consider EACH to be both the place where you turn to as your natural home and also the pressure group working to support all of our healthcare communication endeavours.

Aim :
• Promoting the development of healthcare communication research and education to improve the quality of communication in healthcare globally and hence improve the health outcomes of the general public.
• Enabling the exchange and dissemination of products of teaching and research within the community of healthcare communication researchers and teachers, to enhance the quality of communication in healthcare and thereby improve patients’ and relatives’ experience.
• More widely disseminating knowledge about effective communication between patients, relatives and health professionals, extolling best practices and improvements in education to comply with the changing needs of health delivery and increasing moves towards a person-centred approach incorporating shared responsibility and decision making.
• Developing an active network of researchers, teachers and practitioners in the world, committed to improving the patient experience in the field of communication in healthcare.