Co-creating Health
Co-creating Health aimed to embed self-management support within mainstream health services across the UK.
Harnessing technology helps people with COPD self manage their condition
HealthQuest were funded by the Health Foundation’s Shine 2012 programme to develop their idea for a national solution to COPD self management. The company was formed by COPD specialists who had all...
Changing the habits of health care
A growing body of evidence shows that, done properly, a system that supports people with long-term conditions to manage their own health has benefits for the person, their health and for health ser...
Is your service ready for self-management support?
Is your service ready for self-management support? Find out more about self-management support and check out some assessment tools to help you think about what needs to be done to embed the approac...
What does good self management support look like?
With the ongoing increase in long-term conditions threatening to overwhelm already stretched services, there is much talk of self management: all those things people do to manage long-term conditio...
How to use agenda setting and confidence rulers
Agenda setting and importance/confidence rulers are just two of the simple tools used by practitioners to support patients to better self manage their conditions. Here Mavis Dwaah, a Psychological ...
The power of peer support
Peer-led support groups are proven to help people manage long-term conditions by reducing depression, building self-esteem and improving physical and mental health. We ask Mohammed Ijaz about the w...
Care planning: a cultural revolution
We spoke to Professor Mathers to learn more about an RCGP programme of work to support care planning in primary care, introducing a new way for GPs and people living with a long-term condition to w...
Co-creating Health: Evaluation of first phase
This report gives the findings from an independent evaluation of phase 1 of our Co-creating Healt...
Enabling people to live well
This research critically analysed the ways that collaborative approaches are currently described ...
