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Putting health tech into practice
What is required for tech implementation in the NHS to be successful, and how should this shape our post-pandemic priorities? Shakira Mahadeva explores the challenges.
Person-centred care Person-centred care supports people to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to more effectively manage and make informed decisions about their own health and health care
In person-centred care, health and social care professionals work collaboratively with those that use their services.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
No more groundhog days
Shared decision making and self-management support can sound a bit woolly – nice, but not really medicine. Haemodialysis is hardcore medicine – instantly life-saving, it takes place in hospital with s...
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 walk...
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 Wel...
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 conditions ...
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 work...
Self management: it’s easy, isn’t it?
My colleagues often laugh at my mantra for integrating self management skills into mainstream health: ‘it’s like pushing water uphill’. But for those of you who have worked in this area it must feel t...
Looking for value in hard times
A new approach to priority setting called Star, designed to help commissioners and others pinpoint where they may be able to get additional value from their resources.
What patients want
At Macmillan, we have for several years had an ambition statement which said we want to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer. We know now (though we did not when we wrote the amb...
Creating a receptive culture for shared decision making
How do you begin to change the culture of an organisation like the NHS within a year? That’s the task Emma Walker faces in her work at the Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA). She’s leading on culture c...
A simple tool to facilitate shared decisions
Dr Marie-Anne Durand, and Professor Glyn Elwyn, from the MAGIC Option Grids Collaborative, explain the value of Option Grids as decision aids and talk us through how to use one.
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