How to Communicate Effectively in Health and Social Care is a handbook aimed at professionals to help improve their communication skills.

Moi Ali is a professional writer, specialising in books on various aspects of communications. She has written best-selling books for publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, Kogan Page and Heinemann and has been published in such titles as Health Service Journal and Quality in Primary Care.Moi is a former Vice President of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the world's largest healthcare regulator, and a former interim member of the General Optical Council's investigations committee, which deals with allegations of professional misconduct. She has served on the Board of a large health authority and is the former chair of a healthcare charity. Currently she is a member of the Board of the Scottish Ambulance Service, where she chairs the clinical governance committee. She has acted as communications consultant to a number of NHS hospitals and healthcare clinics, to two children's hospices, a voluntary sector hospital and the Scottish Cot Death Trust. She is also founder of healthcare pressure group Good Practice, which aims to make family doctors more accountable.