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If you missed self management uk’s webinar on return on investment for self-management support, hosted by NHS Improving Quality’s Long-term Conditions Improvement Programme, you can access it here.

In the webinar, Renata Drinkwater, Chief Executive of self-management uk, talks about:

The Commissioning for Value programme for Clinical Commissioning Groups highlights the importance of self-management. The programme, a collaboration between NHS Right Care, NHS England and Public Health England, is running a series of events for commissioners this month. In his presentation, Dr Martin McShane, Director for Long-term Conditions, NHS England, describes two scenarios for the journey of a 45-year old patient diagnosed with diabetes. The first scenario, with no self-management support, costs the NHS £49,000.

My self-management journey started in 2007, but my story started much earlier, in 1999, when at 30 years’ old, I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. It was a huge shock but, after a successful operation, I returned to work.

You can support self management uk by running for us in the Vitality British 10k London Run on Sunday the 12^th of July 2015.

The Vitality British 10k London Run is staged on the world's greatest route through the heart of the City of Westminster & City of London, passing many of the capital’s truly world class historic landmarks.