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       Self-Care Support for Long-Term Conditions
       By: admini5 Date: May 11, 2015, 5:42 am
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       Providing patients with long-term conditions with better
       information about their disease, choices for treatment and care
       pathways, and promoting self care are hallmarks of high- quality
       care. Productivity may be improved if long term conditions are
       better managed through self care and this results in decreased
       medical consultation and hospital attendance.
       Organisations where the proposal has been implemented
       A wide range of primary care trusts have started to offer a
       range of self-care support, including more and better
       information; information prescriptions; signposting to self-help
       groups; running self-management courses such as Challenging
       Arthritis, or the Expert Patients Programme; and are starting to
       introduce Telehealth or Telehealth / telecare options to keep
       people more independent at home.
       For further information, please visit :
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