Long Term Conditions Resources
The HSJ Resource Centre contains an archive of case studies and articles focused on long term conditions, in areas such as: clinical conditions e.g. cardio, diabetes, COPD etc; community management; budget holding, including individual budgets; multidisciplinary working/multidisciplinary care and more.Long term condition resources
Best of 2012: long-term conditions
Long-term conditions is the subject of this selection of best practice content
Think About Your Life puts people's experience first
A set of tools support patients with cancer and chronic illnesses
Easing winter pressures
Consultant-delivered multidisciplinary team working is providing a host of positive outcomes
A few words on self-management
Multilingual peer educators in north west London are helping people in hard to reach communities manage their diabetes, say Sunder Chita and colleagues.
How diabetes data can unlock more funding for services
The best practice tariff for paediatric diabetes presents a major opportunity for childhood diabetes specialists to attract important funding for under-resourced services. But to capitalise, clinicians must demonstrate they are meeting national guidelines and delivering best practice, says John Sanderson.
An innovative approach to redesigned oncology services
Developing a successful acute oncology service to admitted patients and those in A&E called for some innovative thinking, explain Rob Smith and colleagues.
How to improve commissioning for long term conditions
Don Redding of National Voices identifies three types of people who can enhance the commissioning of services for people with long term conditions.
Safer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services
The introduction of care navigators has revolutionised services for a London mental health trust’s older patients. Caroline Leveaux and colleagues explain.
The need for greed in public health spending budgets
Although outcomes can be difficult to measure, trends over the last 50 years suggest the £5.2bn budget for public health in 2013-14 could leave the health service with thinning options
