Self Care Connect from the NHS

Supporting self care in primary care - the book

This book is a guide for anyone involved in commissioning or providing primary care, to help them understand what people can do to care for themselves or those they look after. Then they can set up systems in the primary care organisation (PCO) or their practice to support self care and enable patients and the public as a whole to self care whenever possible.

The book is a part of the Self Care for Primary Care initiative toolkit encouraging health professionals to learn to promote self care, and introduce self care support interventions
for common health conditions in their patients. Chapter 14 provides more information on how to use the tools featured in the workshops.

You can access the chapters of the book by clicking on the links below.

Introduction Foreword, preface, contents, about the authors, acknowledgements, about WiPP, abbreviations	Chapter 8 Managing change - moving to a self care culture
Chapter 1 Making self care happen	Chapter 9 Completing the cycle: evaluation
Chapter 2 What we know about the practice and impact of self care	Chapter 10 Illustrative patient pathways to self care
Chapter 3 Getting organised for supporting self care as a primary care organisation	Chapter 11 Illustrative patient pathway to self care: back pain
Chapter 4 Getting organised for supporting self care as a general practice team	Chapter 12 Illustrative patient pathway to self care: asthma
Chapter 5 Getting organised for supporting self care as an individual professional in the general practice team	Chapter 13 Illustrative patient pathway to self care: cough and colds
Chapter 6 Getting organised for promoting and supporting self care as a pharmacy team	Chapter 14 Tools to help you plan and support self care
Chapter 7 Seeing self care from the patient's perspective	Index Index of contents