What Skills are Needed by Clinicians?

At each clinical encounter there should be a conversation that ensures the patient will be supported in developing and refining their care plan and health related goals, within this process there may be individual choices and decisions to be made ,which may involve...

Supporting Empowerment needs to happen at all levels

Empowerment of citizens and patients is a task which involves and encourages interaction of communities, health care professionals, policy makers and all other civil society actors, with respect to the health and well being of individuals. Empowering patients means...

Empowering families of people with chronic disease

It is not only important to empower patients, but to support families and other informal carers. Informal carers may carry a large share of care provision. Supporting their role, training and protecting their well being has positive outcomes for the health of carers...

What is Chronic Disease Self Management?

Self management is generally defined as the day to day activities that an individual carries out to manage their long term health condition. Self management recognises that the individual’s own behaviors, beliefs and emotional state can significantly affect their...

The evidence for self-management programmes

The evidence for self management is still developing and there is a lack of systemic reviews to draw upon. The definition of self management is very broad, so studies often involve very different interventions and populations which make comparative reviews...