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In this blog Don Redding from National Voices and Halima Khan from NESTA argue that peer support is a key building block in enabling people with long term conditions to successfully manage in the 99% of time they are not in direct contact with healthcare professionals.
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In this blog, Julie Fenner explores what the new definition of 'health literacy' developed by the World Health Organisation means in practice.
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In this blog, Julie Fenner explores what the new definition of 'health literacy' developed by the World Health Organisation means in practice.
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This blog by Fiona Godlee, providing links to more detailed sources, summarizes the implications of the UK’s Supreme Court ruling in February 2015 (the Montgomery ruling).
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In this blog primary care doctor Mitch Kaminski provides a powerful case study showing how important it is to understand the outcomes patients want from their care before considering or implementing a treatment plan.
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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.
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In this article Lisa Burscheidt, Assistant Librarian at North East London NHS Foundation Trust describes how, despite mental health problems being common in young people aged 16-25, access to services is a problem as young people rarely feel comfortable approaching their GP about mental health problems.
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In this blog Dr David Paynton, who is a practising GP from Sounthampton and National Clinical Lead for the RCGP Centre for Commissioning, describes his own practice's experience of implementing care and support planning using the house of care model. He describes some of the challenges, and the need for not only local but whole system change.
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In this blog Dr Hazel McFarlane, Pathways Development Officer at RNIB Scotland, argues that self management is contingent upon a person being able to understand their condition and the management of the condition, but that visually, hearing and joint sensory impaired people face particular barriers to this. The blog sets out some simple approaches to overcoming those barriers.
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In this blog Dr Hazel McFarlane, Pathways Development Officer at RNIB Scotland, argues that self management is contingent upon a person being able to understand their condition and the management of the condition, but that visually, hearing and joint sensory impaired people face particular barriers to this. The blog sets out some simple approaches to overcoming those barriers.