Welcome!
This resource centre is packed full of information and practical resources that can be adopted and adapted locally to help services and health professionals to develop their own self management support programmes.
Self management support resource centre
Our Fellows are here to help
Our network of self management support Fellows share their learning and enthusiasm with local services and health economies. Find out how they could help you with implementing a self management support programme.
Introductory presentations
We've put together two short presentations to introduce you to the theory and evidence behind self management and give an overview of our Co-creating Health programme.
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Co-creating Health: an overviewThis short video explains what our Co-creating Health programme was about, with stories from patients and clinicians who took part.
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Sadie McKenzie's storySadie, who suffers with depression, was one of the patient participants on Co-creating Health.
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Dr Hans Hartung's storyDr Hartung, a respiratory consultant, is one of the clinicians who took part in Co-creating Health.
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Practioner developmentThis video looks at the Advanced Development Programme aspect of Co-creating Health (now referred to as 'practitioner development').
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Joni Inniss's storyJoni is one of the patients involved in Co-creating Health (Joni is diabetic).
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A GP perspectiveDr Peter Ilves is a GP who was trained to support self management through the Co-creating Health programme.
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Donald McIntosh's storyDonald, who suffers from COPD, took part in Co-creating Health as a patient.
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Diabetes specialist nurseCathy Jenkins, a diabetes specialist nurse, talks about her experience of Co-creating Health.
I want to:
- Write a business case for self management support
- Find evidence that self management support works
- Put together a project plan and get started
- Learn about the Patient Skills Programme
- Use self management support skills in my consultations
- Understand the risks of self management support
- Read about a successful service
New in self management support:
- Health Foundation launches self management support Fellows
- NHS Diabetes launches guidance on self management of diabetes in hospital
- Department of Health launches consultation to develop a cross-government long term conditions strategy
- Health Foundation Self Management Support Fellow's guest blog for the Health Council of Canada