Peer support hub

Peer support hub
National Voices March 2019

• The Peer Support Hub is an online bank of high quality resources for people looking to measure, evaluate, sustain and grow different types of peer support. The Hub collates, curates and categorises the best quality information and evidence together in one place, making it easier for people to find useful, high quality peer support resources.
• "Peer support is where people draw on shared personal experiences, characteristics or circumstances in order to support each other to improve their health and wellbeing."

Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model

Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model
NHS England 31 January 2019

• This document sets out how the NHS Long Term Plan commitments for personalised care will be delivered. It establishes the Comprehensive Model for Personalised Care, comprising six, evidence-based standard components, and the detailed 21 actions to achieve its systematic implementation, right across the country. Implementation will be guided by delivery partnerships with local government, the voluntary and community sector and people with lived experience.
• The components are:

1. Shared decision making
2. Personalised care and support planning
3. Enabling choice, including legal rights to choice
4. Social prescribing and community-based support
5. Supported self-management
6. Personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets

Prevention is better than cure: Vision for prevention

Prevention is better than cure: our vision to help you live well for longer
DHSC 5 November 2018

• The document sets out the government’s vision for:
• stopping health problems from arising in the first place
• supporting people to manage their health problems when they do arise
• The goal is to improve healthy life expectancy by at least 5 extra years, by 2035, and to close the gap between the richest and poorest.
• A collection of case studies has been published, showing examples of good practice in preventing health problems from happening.

Read Matt Hancock's speech to the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) when he launched the policy.

Comprehensive model of Personalised Care [infographic]

Comprehensive model of Personalised Care [infographic]
NHS England 2 November 2018

• The comprehensive model of personalised care helps to establish a whole-population approach to supporting people of all ages and their carers to manage their physical and mental health and wellbeing, build community resilience, and make informed decisions and choices when their health changes.

Connected Health Trends 2018

Connected Health Trends 2018: moving in the right direction.
Ipsos MORI October 2018

• According to an international online survey there has been little change in uptake of connected health (eg wearable devices, remote monitoring devices, and health apps) since 2016. 
• Use of connected health devices in the UK in 2018 is stable at 11% compared to 2016,  and at 2% across all 28 countries.
• The survey results show those using connected health devices tend to be younger and more educated. These devices supplement their current lifestyle and enhance their behaviour towards activity and health, as well as help support the management of chronic health conditions. 
• Survey of 23,249 online adults aged 16-64 across 28 countries May 25 – June 8, 2018

Bridging the gap: person centred, place-based self-management support

Bridging the gap: person centred, place-based self-management support
Future Hosp J 1 October 2018 vol. 5 no. 3 188-191

• This practical review article sets out to explore the historical context of self-management in England, its current status and the challenges faced in delivering self-management programmes.

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Reducing emergency admissions: unlocking the potential of people to better manage their long-term conditions

Reducing emergency admissions: unlocking the potential of people to better manage their long-term conditions
Health Foundation August 2018

This briefing summarises research that explores the link between how well patients feel able to manage their long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes and depression and their use of health care. Analysis using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) and healthcare utilisation across a whole health economy found that self-management capability is associated with lower healthcare utilisation and less wasteful use across primary and secondary care.

Summary of
Self-management capability in patients with long-term conditions is associated with reduced healthcare utilisation across a whole health economy: cross-sectional analysis of electronic health records 

BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: 23 August 2018. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007635

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Self Care Forum

Self Care Forum

• The Self Care Forum, sponsored by PAGB, whose purpose is to further the reach of self-care and embed it into everyday life. Activities include the Self Care week. 
• The website includes news on self care and useful resources (eg apps, leaflets, a Patient Portal).

Remote monitoring and self-care

Remote monitoring and self-care
Digital Health March 2018

• A discussion on how the NHS can utilise and share digital technology to improve patient experience and empower them to manage their health better. 

Social Prescribing in London

Social Prescribing
Healthy Partnerships London

• Resources, including guide to help London's commissioners take the first steps towards implementing social prescribing; a companion guide to implementing self-care locally; plus a live wiki-style resource for social prescribing and self-care  with evidence and resources for encouraging self care across London.

Telehealth Interventions to Support Self-Management of LTCs - a systematic review

Telehealth Interventions to Support Self-Management of Long-Term Conditions: A Systematic Metareview of Diabetes, Heart Failure, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Cancer
J Med Internet Res 2017 v19 (5) e172

• The objectives of this metareview were to 
1. assess the impact of telehealth interventions to support self-management on disease control and health care utilization, and 
2. identify components of telehealth support and their impact on disease control and the process of self-management. Our goal was to synthesise evidence for telehealth-supported self-management of diabetes (types 1 and 2), heart failure, asthma,  COPD and cancer to identify components of effective self-management support.
• Conclusions: While telehealth-mediated self-management was not consistently superior to usual care, none of the reviews reported any negative effects, suggesting that telehealth is a safe option for delivery of self-management support, particularly in conditions such as heart failure and type 2 diabetes, where the evidence base is more developed. Larger-scale trials of telehealth-supported self-management, based on explicit self-management theory, are needed before the extent to which telehealth technologies may be harnessed to support self-management can be established. 

Mobilising Communities: Insights on Community Action for Health and Wellbeing

Mobilising Communities: Insights on Community Action for Health and Wellbeing
NESTA 31 March 2017

• This report gathers a wide range of insights taken from three community sites on how to implement a people powered approach to health and wellbeing.
• Three main insights were found to be the most important to making a difference on the ground:
• Helping people help themselves
• Creating opportunities for people to help one another
• Creating value between the professional and social spheres - helping health and care
• The sites involved in the programme were
• The Bromley by Bow Centre and Health Partnership
• Spice and Lancashire County Council
• Horsham and Mid Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group

Self-care: Everybody’s talking about it

Self-care: Everybody’s talking about it: The Voluntary and Community Sector as enablers of self-care
Regional Voices March 2017

• This briefing aims to increase the understanding amongst commissioners of the contribution the voluntary and community sector (VCS) as enablers of self-care. 
• It accompanies the discussion paper Self-care; Everybody’s talking about it: a discussion paper which is an exploration of the extent to which the recognition of the contribution of the VCS at policy level is replicated at a local level in the commissioning of VCS organisations across the East Midlands and East regions by CCGs.