Educational Solutions to Support Self Management

Maggie Clark

Long Term Conditions Manager A&B CHP

What is Self Management“Self care is what each person does on a daily basis. This

is often compromised for a person living their life with long term conditions.”

“Self management is the process each person develops to manage their conditions”

“Support for self care and self management is the responsibility of health and social care providers and paid carers.”

LTCAS summarised the 2 definitions as “Self management is the successful outcome of the person

and all appropriate individuals and services working together to support him or her to deal with the very real implications of living the rest of their life with one or more long term condition” (LTCAS, Guan Yersel, 2009)

Getting Started• Funding from Skills for Health (SKFH)• Key theme- self management• Steering group set up, key partners• 2 project leads identified (NHS, UHI)• Project plans supported by SKFH• Training on SKFH website• SKFH self management competencies• Audit of activity carried out

The Journey• Project management• Project facilitators• Partnership• Differing ideas/priorities• Workforce development• The need for a leadership aspect• UHI facilitated, coordinated and supported,

linked specialist knowledge to the academic framework

• 2 modules ( leaders for change/self management champions)

• 2 legacies, HAP tool and competency framework

Lessons Learned• Engaging with our partners, while meeting

SKFH objectives

• Flexible timelines

• The need for dedicated project management support

• Skills and learning shared across the team

• Recruitment and retention to the modules

• Getting the right people on board

Future work• Recruitment to the 2 modules• Executive summary and final report

circulated to key partners• Further work on the competency

framework and HAP tool how to embed it• Development of resources to support

practice change• Development of a self management

champions network