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Video
This lively ten-minute video is aimed at patients, but will also be useful to health professionals and others.
Tools for managers
Self-management support is when health professionals, teams and services (both within and beyond the NHS) work in ways that ensure that people with long-term conditions have the knowledge, skills, confidence and support they need to manage their condition(s) effectively in the context of their everyday life.
Academic / research papers
This paper explores how the House of Care, a coordinated approach to personalised care and support planning, can transform the health and care of people with long-term conditions (LTCs).
Website
This extract from a longer paper, provides a helpful table of components of self-management support and examples of how these have been implemented.
Blog
In this blog, Anya de Iongh describes how her 92 year old grandmother, who subscribes to the 'doctor knows best' school of thought and would not describe herself as having long term conditions, is in fact a role model for self-management support.
Academic / research papers
This is the first review to examine the moderating effect of sex in self-management support interventions. A substantial sample frame of 1887 potentially relevant studies (identified via 116 Cochrane reviews) were screened for eligibility against the inclusion criteria.
Academic / research papers
This report gives the findings from an independent evaluation of phase 1 of the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme, which worked with eight sites to explore how to implement self-management support. The evaluation provides insights into what worked and the further challenges health systems need to address to support people to develop confidence in managing their long-term conditions themselves.
Academic / research papers
This report gives the findings from an independent evaluation of phase 1 of the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme, which worked with eight sites to explore how to implement self-management support. The evaluation provides insights into what worked and the further challenges health systems need to address to support people to develop confidence in managing their long-term conditions themselves.
Discussion papers
This report sets out a series of 10 key ideas which the Innovation Unit believes should for the underpinning principles around which health services are designed and delivered.
Other tools and resources
A Better Plan is a free on-line application which allows people to create and share their own personal care plans. It has been developed by Digital Life Sciences through Year Zero, one of the four projects in the dallas programme supported by the Technology Strategy Board and Department of Business, Innovations and Skills.