Tools

There are a number of tools used in the workshops. These are listed below. Please click on the relevant link to access and download a tool.


There is more information on Tools 1-22 in Chapter 14 of the book Supporting self care in primary care.
 

Core tools:

  1. Force field analysis

  2. Devising your PCT/practice strategy and action plan to establish a new culture of promoting self care

  3. SWOT analysis

  4. The basic planning process: taking account of political, economical, sociological and technological (PEST) factors

  5. The Gap model

  6. Plan, do, study, act (PDSA) model of improvement

  7. Timetable tasks with a Gantt chart

  8. Infrastructure and resource matrix

  9. Undertake an audit of how well established self care is in your practice

  10. Training needs analysis

  11. How well is your team functioning?

  12. Significant event audit

  13. P.A.R.T workload assessment tool

  14. Moving through change

  15. Keeping a reflective learning log

  16. Reduce time pressures at work

  17. Check out whether self care is a priority for your practice and the way in which you plan to learn about it is appropriate

  18. Draw up a personal map of support mechanisms in your life

  19. Assess your consultation skills and style

  20. Determine your consultation style

  21. Encouraging and guiding a patient to change to adopt self care using self care aware consultation styles

  22. Record sheet to plan and then describe progress in addressing self care as a general practice team

Additional tools used in the workshops are listed below: