self management uk's blog

Self Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on establishing support for self-care across communities, families and generations.

More needs to be done to support people to better look after their own health and empowering individuals to self-care has many benefits for their short-term and long-term health. Helping people to look after their own health, and their family’s health also helps to manage demand on health services.

Do you live with a long-term health condition or are you a carer to someone who does? Join our team and help transform people’s lives.

self management uk is a charity that provides support and training to people with long-term health conditions, such as arthritis, diabetes, lung disease and heart conditions. We also provide training and support to carers of people with long term conditions.

Commendation in the Wessex Shine Awards 2016 - Excellence in Education and Training for the NHS

For the second year running, self management uk has been Commended in the Health Education England, Wessex Shine Awards 2016. This year in the category of “Hearing the Patient Voice in Education and Training”.

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting the National Voices "Local Influencing and Campaigning Network Meeting".

We were delighted to invite so many of our voluntary sector colleagues, along with Phil Brough, Service Change Lead for Healthwtach UK who presented on "Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) and supporting networks through service transformation".

We had some great dialogue and made some interesting new connections.