Resources and services for people who want to learn more about looking after their own health, and for people providing self care support. We've put together some useful links on this page, but use the menus on the left to find many more services that can help.

Right Care Right Here Self Care Event June 2011

Over 90 people got together on 14 June 2011 to look at self care in Sandwell and Heart of Birmingham.  Here is the report and the presentations that were handed out.

Event Notes

Self Care Presentation - Les Williams

Self Care Presentation - Ian Walton

Self Care - Local Needs And Evidence Base

Self Care Report

Self Care Comms Pack

Self Care Workshop Slides

Pathfinder Service Redesign

Working with secondary care and community to activate patients

Local Links

Sandwell Self Care Team - For people with a long term health condition. 0121 612 1502

Sandwell Self Care Leaflet - A mini guide for the public and professionals.

Sandwell Self Care Guide - A local mini guide for the public and professionals.

Lifestyle Services - Including confidence and wellbeing. 0800 011 46 56

Sandwell Council Assist  - Information & services for people who need care and support.  0845 352 22 66

Cares Sandwell  - Information, support and training for people who look after others. 0121 558 7003

LINk - Have your say in health and social care.

STAY - Sandwell Telecare - Link to Sandwell Telecare Assisting You.

Confidence and wellbeing - Sandwell’s single source for all emotional / mental wellbeing support.

Health Organisations - Organisations that can help with specific health conditions and information about health in general.

Equip - Part of the NHS local website, EQUIP approved links are websites containing useful information for the public. They have all been accredited by NHS staff using recognised quality criteria and are reviewed regularly. Here you will find lots of info about health and local as well as national services.  You can also add your service if it isn’t listed.

Self Care Connect

Self Care Forum

National Links

NHS Choices is the online 'front door' to the NHS. It is the country's biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health.		NHS Direct are there whenever you have health worries and they have the knowledge and experience to give you real help and reassurance.		Fast, free, independent advice from the Men's Health Forum.

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For Professionals

Self Care Connect - Easy to register and full of useful stuff, including A framework for commissioning self care support.

Resource pack (NHS South West) 2009 - Examples of self care policies, relevant policy documents and other information from the DH and elsewhere, to support local self care policy development.

Personalisation - All you need to know about personalisation in adult social care and what it means for different people. Lots of resources including social care TV.

Independent Living Resource - One stop information resource for commissioners, transformation programme leads and others working to embed Independent Living at the strategic level. Focus on older people, with tips, case studies, resources.

Your Health, Your Way - NHS Choices guide to self care for people with long term conditions. Includes self assessment tool and lots of useful links.

Personal Health Budgets - DH web page (learning network) on personal health budgets.

Literacy Action Net - Website with resources to help with engage and motivate children and socially excluded adults to take part in literacy programmes. Methods and skills, Work with other organisations,  learning from successful initiatives.

LTC Delivery Support Team - Website set up by the Long Term Conditions Delivery Support Team on behalf of people with an interest in developing high quality services for people with neurological conditions.

Care Planning - DH page on personalised care planning for people with long term conditions - includes a guide for commissioners.

Self care - A real choice: Self care support - A practical option (DH 2005). Accessible document for health and social care managers and  practitioners. Information on the developing policy on support for self care and why it is important, practical actions for health and social care, ideas on how to support self care. Based on wide consultation with stakeholders.

Supporting self care - a practical option - Diagnostic, monitoring and assistive tools, devices, technologies and equipment to support self care (DH 2006). Report  and summary of a review of research on self care tools, devices & technologies.

Common core principles to support self care - A guide to support implementation (Skills for care / Skills for Health).

Department of Health Evidence Pack (July 2007) - Evidence on self care support.

Fair Society, Healthy Lives: the Marmot Review (2010) - High profile independent report on public health and inequalities.

Wipp Self Care for You (NHS North West) - Evaluation report on a regional public train-the-trainers project. Interesting and should inform local developments.