The Year of Care approach: developing a model and delivery programme for care and support planning in long term conditions within general practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with long term conditions (LTCs) make most of the daily decisions and carry out the activities which affect their health and quality of life. Only a fraction of each contact with a health care professional (HCP) is spent supporting this. This paper describes how care and support planning (CSP) and an implementation framework to redesign services, were developed to address this in UK general practice. Focussed on what is important to each individual, CSP brings together traditional clinical issues and the person's lived experience in a solution focussed, forward looking conversation with an emphasis on 'people not diseases'.

Methods

The components of CSP were developed in three health communities using diabetes as an exemplar. This model was extended and ref

SUBMITTER: Roberts S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6839214 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature