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Training Dates
Tutor Training event in Manchester
Dates: Monday 16th, Tuesday 17th and Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Venue: Cornerstones Health Centre Room G32 (day 1 & 2)
Levenshulme Health Centre (day 3 & 4)
Times: 9am – 5pm approx. Will be confirmed by the agenda.
Trainers: Caroline Powell & Ian Darling.
For further information or if you would like to book any of your potential tutors onto the training please contact;
Caroline Powell
EPP Manager
0161 371 2105
The cost for the training is £600.00 per person and includes a CDSMP Tutor Manual, Refreshments and Lunch. If 2 or more places are booked by any one Trust a reduction of £200.00 will be made from total invoice.
Follow up assessments and accreditation to be organised by sponsoring organisations.
Tutor Training
Plymouth Guild, EPP are holding a Tutor training event on 4,5,11 and 12 September 2014 at Guild House, 156 Mannamead Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL3 5QL. If you are interested please contact Jan White, EPP Co-ordinator, on 01752 201892,
Qismet Workshop Information
March 31st, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. 11am til 4pm
"Developing standards for self management interventions"
Co-hosted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
This workshop will explore what is needed in terms of minimum standards to ensure interventions are effective, how can these be developed? what might they look like?
April 1st, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. 11am til 4pm
"Developing a common understanding around outcome measures for self management support"
This workshop will link with a webinar on health literacy and other outcome measures led by professor Richard Osborne. Professor Osborne is a leading figure in the development and use of outcome measures in relation to self management .
The workshop will look at issues such as how do make sure we are comparing apples with apples? how to reconcile quantitative measures with personal
outcomes? should greater weight be given to evaluation based on personal outcomes?
Webinar date TBC
April 7th, The Studio, Birmigham 11am til 4pm.
Aimed at organisations providing Stanford based Expert Patient Prorammes.
This workshop will be led by Jean Thompson of Talking Health Taking Action. Jean was instrumental in the original setting up of EPP in the UK. THTA are the lead training and capacity building organisation for this programme and led on the recent programme update
April 11th, The Studio, Birmingham 11am til 4pm.
Aimed at organisations who are wanting to be commissioned as providers of self management support and want to know how to develop their capacity in this area,
What does a quality service look like? What do we need to do to get market ready? What are the future opportunities?
This workshop will be co-led by Catherine Cross. Catherine Cross has over twenty years’ experience of leading and delivering transformational change programmes for both Central and Local Government. Catherine spent two and a half years as Partnership Director at the London Borough of Harrow. Here she developed and delivered a series of complex improvement and change programmes to drive service improvement, cost savings and additional value from the council’s investment in technology. She is now the Chief Executive of Talking Health Network Ltd
Early booking is essential as last year's workshops filled very quickly - to book email
**All workshops are FREE to attend and lunch and refreshments are included**
If you or your organisation would like to co-host a workshop or event that relates to quality issues in self management in the future then please drop us a line or if you have any questions, please get in touch.
UHSM (University Hospitals South Manchester) has the following event planned:
Assessor Supervision on 21st March 2013 at Ancoats Primary Care Centre (10 mins walk from Manchester Piccadilly train station). The Lead Trainer will be Ian Darling. The cost is £200 per delegate, which includes lunch. If 3 or more places are booked by any one Trust – the overall invoice cost will be £500.00
For further information about either of these events please contact Caroline Powell, EPP Manager 0161 371 2105/0779 407 2241
Resources
‘No decision’ – how the Health and Social Care Act should help
patient involvement in care
A Briefing from National Voices on the meaning and significance of the Act’s clauses on patient and service user involvement.
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Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and
Public Health's Annual reception on 7th December 2011.
2011 Parliamentary Report 
Setting up a social enterprise
Online course for people interested in setting up a social enterprise, for more information and access to a free taster of the course follow the link below:
http://www.knowhownonprofit.org/studyzone/setting-up-a-social-enterprise
Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/transforming_our.html
Evidence: Helping people help themselves
A review of the evidence considering whether it is worthwhile to support self-management
http://www.health.org.uk/publications/evidence-helping-people-help-themselves/
Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS
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From Stanford to SS2Q
Essential information for Tutor, Trainers and Coordinators in England
A comparative overview of the fidelity and quality assurance requirements of Stanford University and Ss2Q.
From Stanford to Ss2Q: Jane Cooper November 2010
From Stanford to Ss2Q: Jane Cooper and Jean Thompson
Article in Self-Management Today, December 2010
http://www.selfmanagement.co.uk/self-management-today-december-2010-0
The Self Care Toolkit Booklet
The Self Care Toolkit is for people who live with persistent health conditions.
Pete Moore & Dr Frances Cole
The Self Care Toolkit Booklet May 2010 Edition
The Pain Toolkit Booklet
The Pain Toolkit is for people who live with persistent pain.
Pete Moore & Dr Frances Cole
The Pain Toolkit Booklet May 2010 Edition
Ss2Q Best Practice Brief
Training, Accreditation and Support for Tutors delivering Stanford University Self-management courses.
Jane Cooper
Ss2Q Best Practice Brief
Self-management courses; The thoughts of participants, planners and policy-makers
This book explores how self-management has become valued within the NHS and local communities, and also airs the arguments about the importance of lay leadership.
Edited by F. Roy Jones
OXFORD University Press: ISBN 978-0-19-953931-4
Links
The following links provide areas of interest in lay led Self-management.
The Pain Toolkit
http://www.paintoolkit.org/
QISMET
http://www.qismet.org.uk
Self Care Connect
http://www.selfcareconnect.co.uk/index
Stanford Patient Education Research Center
http://patienteducation.stanford.edu
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
http://www.rheumatoid.org.uk
Breathworks
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk
Links to other websites and organisations
The inclusion of links to organisations on the website is not an endorsement of companies or products.
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