How does the NHS work in England?
To round up our first week, here’s a short video about how the NHS works in England.
Course: Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step One
Deb’s experience of supported self-management
In this video, Debs talks about a clinical consultation that changed her life. She also explains how a digital app helps her to monitor her condition and self-manage. Is there …
Summary of week one
This week we’ve introduced the Peer Leadership Development Programme and its purpose. We’ve also explained who we are as course leaders and why personalised care matters to us. You’ve had …
Have you been given a choice?
Here are some useful questions you can use to check that you have been given a choice. It’s worth bearing in mind that not every choice would be appropriate so …
Your ‘legal right to choose’
There are some things that we really want to have a choice about when it comes to our healthcare. Did you know that there are six areas where you have …
How Will Personalised Care Help Reduce Health Inequalities?
Reducing health inequalities means giving everyone the opportunity to lead a healthy life, no matter where they live or who they are. Health inequalities exist for a range of reasons …
Summary of week two
The answer to why the NHS needs to change has several key aspects. In summary: Our health and social care system is facing a lot of demands due to changes …
What is the Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care?
Here’s a short video about the ‘Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care’. This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. When you watched the video, did you notice that there are …
What will be different for people?
So far, we’ve looked at the changes in our population and how the NHS needs to change to respond to this. We’ve also seen that people using the NHS want …
Welcome to the Peer Leadership Development Programme
How can good personalised care make a positive difference in people’s lives? We are Jo Fitzgerald and Colin Royle from the Personalised Care Group at NHS England and NHS Improvement …
How is the NHS delivering more personalised care?
The NHS and policy makers have listened to people using services and to their staff and have responded by creating an approach that addresses what’s not been working well. It …
Overview of week one
In this first week, we’ll explain the four steps of the Peer Leadership Development Programme, who can join and how it works. You can also download a course booklet here. …
3 ways to manage a personal health budget
A personal health budget can be managed in three ways, or a combination of them: 1. Notional budget The money stays with the NHS. You are told how much money …
Engaging on FutureLearn
The Peer Leadership Development Programme (PLDP) brings together people from diverse backgrounds, with different perspectives and life experiences. So, there may be times when people disagree. The goal is to …
Welcome to week three of the programme
Welcome to Week Three This week we will introduce you to the first three components of personalised care which are: Shared Decision Making Social Prescribing Choice Each of these approaches …
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