Staying Healthy

Supporting self care section

Self Care Connect is a pioneering resource and networking organisation for everyone with a professional interest in self care.

The Expert Patients Programme is a self-management course giving people the confidence, skills and knowledge to manage their condition better and be more in control of their lives.

Pilot sites helping to develop and test information prescriptions, informing the implementation of information prescriptions throughout the country

Umbrella body for national voluntary organisations in the UK working to meet the needs of people with long-term health conditions

A resource for all those involved in the self management community.  Access to self-management resources (including self care education programmes and tools for commissioners), news, information and advice about all aspects of self-management of long term health conditions.

Healthtalkonline shares other people's experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people's experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support. The information on Healthtalkonline is based on qualitative research into patient experiences, led by experts at the University of Oxford. Healthtalkonline replaces the DIPEx.org website.

www.expertpatients.co.uk

medguides.medicines.org.uk

Your health, your way. Your guide to long-term conditions and self care. The national Patients' Prospectus provides people with long-term conditions the information they need about the choices which should be available locally, to enable them to self care in partnership with health and social care professionals.

Find everything you need to know about medical conditions, symptoms, health tests, treatments, minor ailments, operations and services in the Health encyclopaedia.

Patient information leaflets and self-help groups