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Adherence: The extent to which a person follows an agreed set of actions. It assumes an equal relationship between two people, it is a voluntary process.

Autonomy: A person’s ability to make choices on the basis of that person’s own preferences, beliefs and values

Capacity: An ability to understand, deliberate and communicate a choice in relation to a specific healthcare decision at a particular time

Competence: The achievement and application of knowledge, intellectual capacities, practice skills, integrity and professional and ethical values needed for safe, accountable, compassionate and effective practice as a registered practitioner

Compliance: Medication compliance refers to the degree or extent of conformity to the recommendations about day‐to‐day treatment by the healthcare provider with regard to timing, dosage and frequency. It relates to a more paternalistic or autocratic relationship, where a person is either following instructions (compliant) or disregarding them (non‐compliant)

Conduct: A person’s moral practices, actions, beliefs and standards of behaviour

Evidence‐based practice: The conscious consideration and the application of the best available evidence along with the healthcare provider’s expertise and a person’s values and preferences in making healthcare decisions

Guidance: A principle or criterion that guides or directs action

Health and well‐being: A state of complete physical, social and mental well‐being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity

Pharmacology: A branch of science that deals with the study of drugs and their actions on living systems

Regulations: A rule or law designed to control or govern conduct

Social prescribing: Also known as community referral, a means of enabling healthcare staff to refer people to a variety of local, non‐clinical services

Standards: Authoritative statements developed, monitored and enforced by, for example, healthcare regulators to describe the responsibilities and conduct expected of registrants

Therapeutic: Relating to therapeutics, the branch of healthcare concerned specifically with the treatment of disease.