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Other tools and resources
In this brief article, Sara Riggare describes how her limited contact with health services (two appointments with her consultant a year) highlights the importance of being able to manage her own health and describes some of the skills and techniques she uses to manage her Parkinson's.
Other tools and resources
The Personalised care and support planning handbook is aimed at commissioners and care practitioners(i.e. not just health and care professionals, but also othe rnon-clinical and volunteer roles), and is intended to set out what personalised care and support planning is, and how to deliver it.
Academic / research papers
Based on a meta-analysis of 9 trials involving 1,282 patients, this article found that self-management interventions appear to be effective in improving the frequency of angina symptoms and related physical limitation. The analysis also found that self-management training also appears to have an overall positive impact on depression scores, which has not been found previously.
Presentations
This presentation sets out findings of an on-line survey of over 500 people with long term conditions. The survey showed that most patients want to be helped to help themselves, and reported that self management courses significantly reduce their visits to A&E, as well as to GP surgeries.
Academic / research papers
This report outlines the changes needed to help the health system make the most of the skills and commitment of employees, patients and communities, in addressing the biggest strategic challenge for health: the rising importance of long–term conditions.
Information for patients
This interactive PDF created by National Voices and co-produced by National Voices’ members, partners, professionals,people who use services and their carers is a draft toolkit designed to support professionals to undertake personalised care and support planning.
Presentations
This presentation summarizes the evidence for self-management support, concluding that much good evidence is available and that active approaches that get people motivated and help change behaviour are more effective than information alone.
Other tools and resources
The guiding principle of this document is that people with diabetes manage their condition on a day-to-day basis when out of hospital, and should continue to self-manage during a hospital admission unless there is a specific reason why they cannot. The guidance details how this decision can be integrated with the rest of hospital care to provide safe and effective management of diabetes in hospital.
Other tools and resources
This White Paper sets out the vision for the whole health and social care system, promising people a stronger voice to drive service improvement, greater involvement - expecially for those with long term needs - and an increase in the availablility of self management training for those living with long term conditions.
Academic / research papers
This report provides an overview of the research evidence for self management interventions and strategies used in cancer care, and identifies gaps in the researchwith specific recommendations for areas where further work needs to be undertaken