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In this blog, Angela Coulter identifies key themes emerging from the evidence that National Voices has recently published on person-centred care.
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The ‘Any town’ toolkit, which uses high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It includes self-management support and telehealth / telecare amongst the 'high impact interventions' it identifies which are already proven to have a significant impact.
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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.
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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.
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This briefing sets out brief definitions of the terms telehealth, telemedicine, telecare and mHealth. It describes current use of telecare and telehealth in the UK, looks at likely future developments in the technology and examines the regulatory and policy issues raised by its implementation.
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The Talking Points Person Outcomes Framework is an evidence based framework comprising the views of people living in the community who use care services about what is important to them in life and the impact of health and social care services on outcomes. This report considers the reporting and use of personal outcomes information in the context of self-management support and the applicability of the framework within different care contexts and at different levels of decision making.
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These web pages describe a project in Nottingham that recruited, trained and supported peer workers with the aim of promoting recovery-focused practice, improving the experience of service users and improving outcomes.
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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.
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This poster describes work in Newham to evaluate if and how web-based consultations can deliver more effective and efficient care for people with diabetes, whilst improving patient experience.
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This briefing paper sets out a definition of peer support, the different forms it can take, the principles that underpin it and the benefits. Although focused on mental health, it will be useful to audiences beyond mental health.