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Academic / research papers
The authors argue that with primary care clinicians in increasingly short supply and overwhelmed by the expanding preventive and long term conditions in their patient populations, new evidence-based models of care are needed to provide self-management support through other members of the care team.
Academic / research papers
This study contributes to the understanding of the challenges of self-managing diabetes. It concludes that self-management of diabetes is physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially demanding. Non-engagement with self-management may make sense in the context of low personal resources (e.g. health literacy, resilience) and overwhelming personal, family and social circumstances.
Academic / research papers
This research project found that people graduating from intensive patient education courses such as DAFNE emerge with disease-specific biomedical, experiential and practical knowledge that exceeds that of many healthcare professionals and that tensions can arise when generalist and even specialist doctors and nurses are not comfortable with patients who have a high level of expertise.
Tools for managers
The Health Foundation has developed Training for Trainers to support training to help clinicians to develop the knowledge and skills to support their patients to self manage effectively.
Case studies
This case study describes how the team in Torbay working on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme split the self-management support programme into 'bronze', 'silver' and 'gold' to enable more people to attend.
Case studies
This case study describes how the team in Torbay working on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme used a range of approaches to recruit GPs to attend training in self-management support.
Case studies
This case study briefly describes the challenges the team at Guys & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust working on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme experienced in recruiting health professionals to training in self-management support. It sets out how they developed different approaches to primary and secondary care.
Case studies
This case study describes how the team in Cambridge working on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme ran multi-disciplinary training for a stroke ward, including designing new forms to help them use self-management support approaches.
Case studies
This case study describes how the team in Cambridge working on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme developed and delivered training for community-based clinical staff to increase their skills and confidence to facilitate personal health planning and self management support.
Case studies
This one-page case study describes how Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, as part of their work on the Health Foundation's Co-creating Health programme, developed mock consulations to demonstrate the value of using self-management support skills in a consultation. The consultations are used to promote self-management support training to health professionals.