Self Management Today E-Newsletter | Self Management Community

January 2011

Welcome

Happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to the first edition of Self-Management Today for 2011.

To start the year off we see the launch of the New Lead Trainer Manual thanks to the work of the T Trainer Group and have an update of what's new on the selfmanagement.co.uk website.

We are also giving you the opportunity to tell us what you think of Self-Management Today. Love it or hate it.... we want to hear!

T Trainer Group launches new Lead/Master Trainer Guide

By Ian Darling, Chairman, T Trainer Group

2011 has announced itself with cold winds, frost, ice and snow and a myriad of austerity measures. However, one bit of good news is the introduction of a new Lead/Master Trainer Guide. This is the manual followed by the trainers on all courses training new leaders to deliver the portfolio of Stanford Self-Management Courses available in the UK (Chronic Disease, Arthritis and the Positive Programme for HIV/AIDS).

For many years trainers and participants have been looking to introduce more skills training into the leaders trainings. Stanford have a number of requirements to be met to fulfil license obligations and one of these is that new leaders must have the whole course presented to them on their training. Because of this, room to manoeuvre is limited. Last February a small working party representing the T Trainer Group of the UK met for a week in London with Prof Kate Lorig of Stanford University Patient Education Programme to write the new guide. One of Stanford’s aims was to have consistency across the UK and we hope that the introduction of this new guide will ensure that this principal is met.

There are a number of additions and improvements which the T Trainer Group feel will add to the skills being taught on leader trainings. The main differences are the greatly expanded review sessions which come at the end of each week of the course delivery. In the old guide these were usually about 15 minutes long. These important learning sessions are now all roughly an hour each. Instead of focusing on ‘ask and tell’ we now focus on ‘ask and discuss’ to allow trainee leaders to work out problems for themselves with the help of their group and the Master Trainers. Practical sessions expanded or changed include a new ‘Working with groups’ session and a different approach to practicing Action Planning and Feedback.

The new guide has been trialled in both Wales and England and feedback has been extremely positive. Six training sessions have been organised in the first 3 months of this year, each being led by two T Trainers. The new manual should be used for leader trainings as soon as Master Trainers are trained and the old manual will cease to be operational from 31st March 2011.

Self-Management Today Reader Survey

We have now been publishing Self-Management Today for a whole a year which is great news. However, we would really like to know what you think it. Love it or hate it all of your opinions are valued! If you've got a quick 5 minutes please have a go at our survey which you can find by clicking on the following link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/67MT5Z5

Many thanks in advance from the Self-Management Today Team.

Expert Patients self-management course effectiveness

Have you or the organisation / PCT you work for carried out any evaluations on the effectiveness of running any Expert Patient Programmes or Self-Management courses?

If so we would be very interested to hear! We are looking for any examples of local evidence or evaluations as we are pulling together a report for the Department of Health. If you have absolutely anything then please let us know. Contact louisa.austin@selfmanagement.co.uk

Once complete the report findings will be available on selfmanagement.co.uk

WANTED! WANTED! WANTED! WANTED! WANTED!

Here at selfmanagement.co.uk we are really keen to share the expertise and experiences of people who are active in our self care community.

In the next edition of Self Management Today we will be starting a new feature highlighting people and organisations who are delivering self management courses up and down the country.

If you would like to share your experiences with others, please contact http://danni.brown@selfmanagement.co.uk

What’s new on http://www.selfmanagement.co.uk/?

www.selfmanagement.co.uk is fast becoming the first port of call for many self-management tutors and trainers on the internet. We regularly update the site with new resources, news items and interesting published articles that you may have missed in the trade and national media. New pages are being added all the time. To help you find your way around this fast growing site, we have just added a Latest Additions page. Here you will find a roundup of all the new pages, articles, forum posts, downloadable resources and news items that have been added to the site in the past month. We will also highlight on this page current government consultations, tutoring and training opportunities and self-management regional and national events.

Visit the latest additions page: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/latest-additions

So what’s new on the site in the last month? Here’s just a selection of the new information and resources published this month. (Why not add our Latest additions page to your favourites – just press CTRL D when you are on the page.)

Newly published papers and resources:

A handy summary of the NHS White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ and the 2010 Spending Review by Sally Cavanagh of QISMET
‘Liberating the NHS: legislative framework and next steps’ is the Government’s response to the extensive process of consultation and engagement around the White Paper proposals
A neat summary of the working relationship between EPP CIC and the Department of Health
‘Modernising Commissioning: Increasing the role of charities, social enterprises, mutuals and cooperatives in public service delivery’ from The Office of Civil Society. Questions focus on how commissioning can be reformed to support the Coalition Agreement commitment to enhance the role of civil society organisations in running public services.
Looking for evidence that Self-Management helps avoid Hospital Admissions. A new report from The Kings’ Fund considers the research evidence: Avoiding Hospital Admissions: what does the research evidence say? - The King's Fund

Visit the latest published papers page: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/published-papers

New resources added in the last month:

Department of Health - E-Learning Tools. A series of E-Learning tools to support the NHS and Social Care workforce deliver improved care to people living with Long-Term Conditions. Visit the Self Care Resources page in the Resource Library to download the toolkits

Visit the self care resources page: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/self-care-resources

New events, opportunities, consultations and conferences

Disability Living Allowance Reform Consultation - respond by Monday 14th February
Healthy lives, healthy people: Consultation on the funding and commissioning routes for public health - respond by 31st March 2011
YouthHealthTalk.org are looking for creative young volunteers to contribute to Youthhealthtalk and their new social network MyYouthhealthtalk

Visit the latest Additions page : www.selfmanagement.co.uk/latest-additions

New and updated pages on selfmanagement.co.uk

We have created a new Caring With Confidence section on the website where you can find links to the Carers Training Programme, Resources for training providers, course materials downloads, End of Life course materials and self-study distance learning workbooks

Visit the new Caring with Confidence pages: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/caring-confidence

New QISMET page: QISMET is the independent certificating body for organisations providing self-management and self care programmes. Set up in 2009, QISMET's role is to provide external verification and certification that self-management education and training programmes are organised and delivered to the highest possible standards.

Visit the new QISMET page: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/Qismet

New Self Management discussion forum hot topics:

Disability Living Allowance changes ...will it affect you? - Are you a little concerned about the proposed changes to the Disability Living Allowance. Is the fact that you volunteer as a self-management tutor going to affect your payments?
Volunteers or Sessional workers? - Is EPP still committed to using volunteers? How many volunteers are working for EPP CIC?
Caring With Confidence - The premature ending of the centrally funded phase of this initiative has created an abrupt cessation of delivery for many providers. How would you like to see this episode used to get something good from the situation?

Visit the forum page: www.selfmanagement.co.uk/forum

Free accredited training for Young People with long-term health conditions!

epilepsy......diabetes......heart conditions...asthma......juvenile arthritis......sickle cell.....ME......Crohn's.....cerebral palsy....... etc

Refer them onto the award winning Staying Positive programme!*

We are currently recruiting for Young Facilitators to run Staying Positive workshops in their local community.

Training Dates:

20 – 22 February 2011, Woodbrooke Study Centre, Birmingham
Or,
23 – 25 February 2011, University of Reading

• Young facilitators will be aged 15 – 23 years and be living with a long-term condition
• They will receive accredited training and support to become facilitators and will work in groups of 3 to run workshops for other young people in their local area
• Every facilitator will receive a certificate of achievement once they have successfully completed their first set of workshops and will be paid an honorarium of £40 for each workshop they deliver thereafter
• We will cover all expenses including travel costs to and from the training venue
• The Staying Positive Facilitator Training Programme is accredited by the Open College Network (OCN) 9 Credits at Level 3

To refer young people or for more information call Louisa Austin on 01225 731421 or louisa.austin@eppcic.co.uk or Cathy McMahon on 01225 731326 or catherine.mcmahon@eppcic.co.uk

*Staying Positive has won a Guardian Public Services Award for long-term conditions* Read more at www.guardian.co.uk/winners-report/common-ground

Department of Health

On 17 December the Government published its response to the consultation on implementing the NHS White Paper. The paper sets out the framework for creating an NHS that focuses on three things: putting patients at the heart of the NHS; improving outcomes; and empowering organisations and professionals, freeing them up from bureaucracy and central control. The formal response to the White Paper consultation takes into account all suggestions from the consultation period – 6,000 comments were received – and sets out how and when these reforms will take shape.
For more information please visit
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/LiberatingtheNHS/DH_122624

A consultation on the Public Health Outcomes Framework, ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: transparency in outcomes’, was published on 20 December. It follows publication of the Public Health White Paper and sets out how society, government and individuals share collective responsibility to improve and protect the health of the population. The framework consultation closes on 31 March 2011, and a summary of the consultation responses received will be published. For more information and an opportunity to comment please visit
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_122962

The Long Term Conditions Team have produced at set of information sheets for doctors, nurses, those delivering personal health budgets, allied health professionals, health trainers and anyone supporting individuals with long-term conditions. The information sheets cover a range of topics including care planning, care co-ordination, managing need and assessment of risk, motivating people to self care, goal setting and action planning and end of life care. To download the information sheets please visit
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_121603

The Long Term Conditions Team are also planning to publish, an update of 'Raising the Profile of Long-Term Conditions Care: A Compendium of Information' which was originally published in January 2008. The new publication builds on the focus about care and support for those with long-term conditions. Keep an eye out for this by visiting the main webpage at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Longtermconditions/index.htm

News feed

We scour the press for topical articles and publish them in a regular newsfeed on our new website http://www.selfmanagement.co.uk/news See below for a round up of what we found. All you need to do is click on the headlines below to go directly to the article online. If you ever come across any interesting stories that you think other tutors would like to read then please let us know and we will add it into the next issue. These can be anything from press including TV/radio programmes or articles in newspapers, magazines, journals or other publications. Either email admin@selfmanagement.co.uk or call 01225 731421.

Department of Health

Nursing in Practice

The Social Investment Business