Self-Management for Life

In England, more than 15 million people currently live with conditions such as diabetes, chronic lung disease and heart disease which significantly affect their lives. They represent 55% of GP appointments; 68% of outpatient, accident and emergency (A&E) attendances and 77% of inpatient bed days; accounting for around 70% of NHS spending.

Health and social care policy has increasingly focused on supporting and encouraging people to take control of their own health and well-being, with the aim of both improving the quality of their lives and providing more cost effective care.

Providing services that are person-centred and involve people in their own care is now seen as integral to quality, and has been at the heart of recent government quality initiatives. 

Within the Department of Health, Quality, Improvement, Productivity, Prevention (QIPP) programme, there is a new emphasis on improving quality and productivity across care pathways for people with long-term conditions. The NHS defines a positive patient experience as '...having information to make choices, to feel confident and feel in control; being talked to and listened to as an equal; and being treated with honesty, respect and dignity.'

Improved management of long-term conditions, as an outcome of self-management support, can enable commissioners and services to achieve the challenge of quality and productivity.This understanding is central to the philosophy and provision of self-management support.

Self-Management for Life offers organisations a range of products and services which aim to fully engage patients and clinicians in self-management. Resulting in an engaged and activated patient working with a skilled, supportive clinician within a service which promotes and encourages self-management from the earliest opportunity in the way it is designed and operates.

Self-Management for Life provides training and consultancy in all key three areas:

For more information please call Freephone 0800 988 5550 or contact us by email


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