self management uk delivers a range of self management solutions for patients with long-term conditions. We offer generic and disease-specific programmes that can be fully integrated into any clinical pathway, for example diabetes, arthritis, COPD or heart disease. We can target specific groups, such as young people or carers, and support hard to reach communities by delivering in community languages and online. Our Consultancy Service helps you identify patients who will benefit most from self management support and what service packages will deliver the best outcomes for you.
We uphold the highest standards in self management training and support, including the use of the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ), which evaluates patients’ behavioural change, measuring the impact of our programmes.
We work with fully trained and accredited self management facilitators, who themselves live with long-term conditions, to provide the most effective engagement and education for patients. We are the market leader in self management with over 10 years’ experience in the development, delivery and advocacy of self management at both national and local levels. We offer a wide range of programmes to suit your patient socio-demographics and frontline staff, including:
self management for life is an integrated approach to self management delivered in the most appropriate medium that offers solutions for patients, healthcare professionals and clinicians. Supported self management has been shown to provide sustained benefits to patients and our self management for life programmes enables both patients and health professionals to build on the core competencies of self management, which leads to improved patient/professional relationships and more effective use of the healthcare team’s time and resources.
self management for life is a flexible programme that can be tailored to suit the needs of your patients, either as a generic programme or adapted to disease-specific self management support.
It supports patients to discover their own motivational triggers, for improved behaviour change and symptom management.
The programme looks at diet and lifestyle choices, medication usage, working in partnership with health professionals, communication skills, relaxation tools, action planning and problem solving, all of which increase self-confidence and motivation.
The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) is a peer led self management programme originally developed by Stanford University in the United States of America and introduced into the United Kingdom in 2002. EPP is a fixed six-week programme suitable for any long-term health condition and covers topics such as: healthy eating, exercise, pain management, relaxation, action planning and problem solving.
X-PERT is a condition-specific course for patients with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, or those at risk of developing Diabetes due to family history or lifestyle. It covers topics such as: dietary information, fitness and education on lowering blood glucose levels.
A condition-specific self management programme for rheumatoid arthritis, delivered by trained healthcare professional and peer self management facilitators. It covers topics such as: better use of medication, managing flare-ups, pain and fatigue, understanding the benefits of pacing and action planning.
The Young People’s Programme is a series of three one-day workshops for young people aged 12-18 years who live with a long-term health condition. The bi-monthly sessions provide the skills for young patients to improve the management of their condition from both a health and a social perspective, supporting transition through schools and children’s service to adults' service, and includes communication skills, medication adherence and dealing with emotions.
Patients with substantial experience of actively self managing are trained as mentors to support health and social care students in both individual and group sessions. The aims of this programme are: to put patients at the centre of care and at the centre of the education of healthcare students; to increase students’ understanding of self management and what it is like to live with a long-term condition; to contextualise the students’ learning with areas such as health promotion, communication skills, engagement and assessment.
To find out more about our programmes or for any other enquiry, please contact us on 03333 445 840 or use our contact form.
