Health Services
(asked on 4th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will adopt the recommendations of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health in its Inquiry Report into NHS England's Five Year Forward View: behaviour change, information and signposting, published in March 2016, that reports of self-care pilots and evidence-based initiatives in the NHS should be sent to the Self Care Forum for upload to its best practice portal.
The Self Care Forum was established in 2011 to further the reach of self-care and embed it into everyday life. Local organisations involved in self care pilots and evidence based initiatives are free to send their findings to the Self Care Forum as recommended in the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Report, should they wish to do so.
The Five Year Forward View set out how the health service needs to change, with an improved relationship between patients and communities. It made a specific commitment to do more to support people with long-term conditions to help them manage their own health.
To support this commitment, NHS England established the Realising the Value Programme to help to build an evidence base about what works best for different patients, how much extra resource may be needed to support the growth of services locally and which approaches, if any, are demonstrably cost effective. Additionally, NHS England announced that a consortium led by Nesta and the Health Foundation in partnership with Voluntary Voices (National Voices, Regional Voices, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action and Community Service Volunteers), the Behavioural Insights Team and Newcastle University, had been selected to take forward this work.
Nesta is also seeking to learn from and build on existing toolkits and learning resources and has worked to collate examples. These are hosted on the Nesta website at the following link: