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Blog
This blog argues that whilst creating an environment in a consultation where a person with long-term health conditions feels supported in their self-management is essential, there is an element of their confidence and well-being which can’t be developed from interactions with clinicians alone.
Academic / research papers
Social networks have been seen as playing a potentially important but relatively unspecified role in providing self-management support for long term conditions and this study was motivated by the idea that these provide people with long term conditions access to relationships and resources which can support them in managing their condition(s).
Information for patients
This article describes the challenges that a child or teen with diabetes experiences when making the transition to self-managing. It explores those challenges and some approaches to managing them from the view points of both people with diabetes and health professionals.
Information for patients
This webpage contains a variety of tools that people experiencing long-term pain can use to help them self-manage. Developed by different authors and organisations, the tools include worksheets, diaries, pacing advice and a toolkit.
Video
This 5-minute video sets out the four key stages in care and support planning: preparing for a consultation; discussing what people feel will help them stay well and what care and support they might need; creating a care and support plan that is easy for people to understand and use; and reviewing what has worked well, what hasn't worked well and what might need to change.
Other tools and resources
This report sets out the evidence for peer support and its benefits. It describes the key features of effective peer support programmes and what is needed to implement these at both strategic and operational levels. It explores how the impact and effectiveness of peer support programmes can be evaluated.
Academic / research papers
This article sets out how social media can be an important and cost-effective form of support to people with diabetes in helping them to build their expertise and practice self-management. It argues that health professionals need to embrace this and themselves participate.
Information for patients
This guide is designed for anyone who has health and care needs over time, or cares for someone who does. It is intended to help people to understand what care and support planning is and how it might help, see how care and support planning works; find out about other people's experience of it; and get started with care and support planning.
Other tools and resources
This poster briefly describes work by two projects sponsored by the Health Foundation to introduce peer support workers (with experience of using mental health services) into a mental health trust and Care Navigators (with experience of homelessness) into an acute trust. The projects focussed on learning how to implement these new roles which had been described in the literature, but little tested in practice.
Discussion papers
This discussion paper briefly describes how communication skills are a core competency for peer supporters that engage patients in managing their long term conditions. It describes the different communication skills that are particularly important in this context and approaches to developing them.