Even where trained medical interpreters are made widely available, healthcare providers may be unaware of existing services and their responsibility to use them, may not consider language access a priority issue, or there may be no system in place to ensure that health providers are held accountable for communication with foreign language speaking patients.
33 These initiatives further emphasise accountable care, improving communication and coordination and strengthening primary care.
A proposed initiative by Nicolson et al. in resolving this barrier to well-child care is to implement a liaison position to be accountable for the communication outcomes [ 31].
Communication / External Relations You will be accountable for developing and managing an advocacy and communication strategy and associated products and activities to promote awareness, understanding, support and respect for children's and women's rights.
Not only do common standards keep everyone accountable, but they also encourage regular communication about the challenges of living up to them.
Volunteer a progress report on your tasks and suggest a meeting to "facilitate communication", and hold others accountable for their "deliverables".
A diverse array of governments are setting bold new targets for maternal, newborn and child survival, while, around the world, civil society is increasingly holding governments accountable for their promises, facilitated by new communication technologies and tools.
Just ask Mr. Caspar or any of his counterparts around the world who tried to hold Google accountable for what one of them, the Australian communication minister Stephen Conroy, called "probably the single greatest breach in the history of privacy".
They are private corporations, which of course are not accountable in the same way that government-regulated communication or media are.
Physicians must be accountable to their patients, and must therefore prioritize communication.
