Co-creating Health: Whittington Health
The team wanted to bring about a fundamental change in local diabetes care. They wanted to make relationships between people and their clinicians more collaborative, and redesign diabetes services to ...
The NHS is under increasing pressure to improve quality and reduce costs. And research has shown that supporting people to self manage their condition improves their quality of life and helps to save costs.
The Co-creating Health programme aimed to embed self-management support within mainstream health services across the UK and equip individuals and clinicians to work in partnership to achieve better outcomes.
The programme focused on three equally important factors which determine how much individuals are able to play an active role in managing their own health:
We worked with eight NHS sites to demonstrate the best way to establish self-management support at the heart of mainstream health care.
Three training and information programmes were delivered across all sites:
Each of these information and training programmes focused on the three enablers: goal setting, shared agenda setting and goal follow up.
Seven of the original eight sites continued to worked with us to:
Particular examples of impact include:
The team wanted to bring about a fundamental change in local diabetes care. They wanted to make relationships between people and their clinicians more collaborative, and redesign diabetes services to ...
This project at Torbay Care Trust & Devon Partnership Trust aimed to embed self-management support through the three strands of the Co-creating Health programme and worked with people with depression ...
This project worked to embed self-management support and focused on working with people with depression. The project worked at all points in the care pathway, focusing predominantly on secondary care ...
This project worked to embed self-management support through the three strands of the Co-creating Health programme and focused on working with people with musculoskeletal pain. The team found that pa...
This project worked to embed self-management support through the three strands of the Co-creating Health programme and focused on working with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. Th...
This project aimed to better support people with diabetes to self-manage their condition, improving their quality of life and helping to relieve the burden on the NHS.
This project focused on working with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and embedding the Co-creating Health approach at all points in the care pathway for people with COPD, includi...
This project worked to embed the Co-creating Health approach for self-management support initially focusing on chronic pain management and, later, on people with COPD.
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