The ALF Project is a small, local pilot project which has succeeded in engaging people with long term health conditions to become actively involved with improving the lives of other patients and service users. The core activity is a skilled conversation between a...

In 2003, the Danish National Board of Health (NBH) was approached by the Danish Arthritis Association (Gigforeningen). They wanted to test the programme CDSMP from Stanford University. At the same time a need had been identified for exploring the implications and...

The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe and the European Commission started a partnership on ‘Empowerment in Mental Health’ in 2008. The objective was to build environments in which people with mental health problems are enabled to develop and express...

Implementing the Stanford model with a partnering approach. Careum, a private independent Swiss Foundation has been working with British and Danish organisations on implementing the Stanford model in Switzerland and German speaking countries. Careum’s main reason for...

The Co-Creating Health Project worked across four disease types (diabetes, depression, Pain, CoPD) and eight acute and primary care sites. The project combines self management courses for patients with skills training for clinicians, supported with appropriate service...

What is it? Genie is an online or web based tool that aims to engage people with a long term condition or health risk to link to resources for self-directed support. How does it work? People with a diverse social network have been shown to manage illness better and to...

A short discussion paper by Talking Health Taking Action. With the NHS no longer holding a national licence for the range of self-management programmes that formed The NHS Expert Patients Programme (NHS EPP), this discussion paper looks at why these programmes are as...

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