The Department of Health’s Mandate is clear, the objective spelled out in plain language: the NHS must become dramatically better at involving people with long-term conditions in their own healthca...
There comes a time in your life when you start to get preoccupied about what the world looks like for older people, profoundly hoping it will get better before you have to experience it for yoursel...
Whether we are a patient, manager or clinician, all the conversations we have in healthcare settings should be open, honest and 'person to person' rather than 'label to label'. I was thinking ab...
There is a new orthodoxy: people who use health services can no longer be viewed as passive recipients of care but must be active co-producers of their own health. But there remains a stubborn g...
Led by the Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA), this project aims to reduce the harms associated with non-engagement for young people transitioning from children’s to adult services, using a new educ...
Evaluation of the Reducing hazards associated in the transition of young people with long term conditions into adult services project to assess whether the use of SDM/ SMS approaches with long term...
Carried out by ICF GHK, in association with Professor Judith Hibbard and Professor Mike Bury, this research aimed to bring together a picture of the evidence and examples of what works and why in s...
Two year research project on shared decision making in end of life settings. Working with the Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care at the Universi...
The early evaluation findings on how six health care organisations are using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) to help provide more personalised care and to measure the effectiveness of inter...
Martin McShane is a former GP and commissioner who is now Director for Domain Two of the Outcomes Framework for NHS England. He shares his vision for the future of long-term conditions management i...
