PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Primary Health Care (19 July 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that local health leaders are supported to enhance opportunities for people to care for themselves in their local areas.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

Supported self-management or self-care is part of the NHS Long Term Plan, to encourage, support and empower people to manage their ongoing physical and mental health conditions. In 2019, NHS England published an action plan for delivering personalised care ‘Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model’ which includes supported self-management and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/universal-personalised-care-implementing-the-comprehensive-model/

A range of guides have been produced to support healthcare professionals and organisations leading local implementation of personalised care to deliver on the Comprehensive Model, including materials on care co-ordination, health coaching and supported self-management. In addition, NHS@home is a programme of work transforming health and care services so that people are supported to keep well, recover and manage their health and wellbeing at home. It aims to improve the use of technology to support more people to better self-manage their health and care at home. This provides more convenient, high quality and timely alternatives to face to face care, where this works for the individual and when clinically appropriate.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
27 July 2021