EU Self Care Week
CEmPaC is pleased to be supporting EU Self Care week. Find out more here.
Neuro Science and Implications for self-management
Introduction We are really pleased to welcome Clinical Psychologist, Dr Patrick Hill as our guest blog. He recently published a paper in The British Journal of Pain on how the nervous system (and brain) may play a role in how we develop chronic pain and fatigue. Here...
2nd CEmPaC Programme Board
On the 25th October 2018, our programme Board convened for in Copenhagen. The purpose of the meeting was to plan and discuss the immediate next steps and direction of CEmPaC, with a particular focus on the ways in which we share information via our web pages. ...
Impact of Self Management on NHS services
A new report shows correlation between people’s ability to manage their health condition and use of NHS services. “We found that patients who were most able to manage their health conditions had 38% fewer emergency admissions than the patients who were least able to....
Information for Health Insurers and Health Care Commissioners
A Brief introduction to approaches that increase health literacy and patient activation for people with long term health conditions 1.1 Background The scale of growth in multimorbidity and an ageing population requires health and social care systems to scale up...
Bed blocking and social prescriptions- A symptom of our changing society?
By Jim Phillips In the UK last winter hospitals were at full capacity, patients were left waiting on trolleys in corridors and waiting targets were missed. At the same time GP surgeries were full and people were waiting weeks to get an appointment to see their GP of...
The Other Side of Empowerment
Here, a patient carer shares their experiences of what it is really like to be a parent carer and needing to regularly access services. "It’s exhausting because it’s so damned hard. Parenting is tough but dealing with the system is tougher. It drains." "Sadly...