First LTCAS Annual Conference is a Great Success!

The first Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland annual conference took place on 23 February at Perth Concert Hall.

200 delegates representing over 100 different organisations, drawn from LTCAS member and associate organisations, government, NHS, private healthcare, councils and voluntary organisations met to explore the question ‘How we can achieve person-centredness for people with long term conditions?'

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Successful Self Management
Fund for Scotland Projects

LTCAS, in partnership with the Scottish Government, is delighted to announce the second round of successful projects from the Self Management Fund for Scotland.
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LTCAS Online Library

At LTCAS we plan to develop an online library incorporating all member publications. The idea is to pull together everyone’s expertise and allow a single point of access from which visitors to the LTCAS website can gain access to the collective knowledge of our members.

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Members' Networking Event – Tuesday 23 March 2010
LTCAS' 100th member, Cancer Support Scotland

(Tak Tent) will host the first members’ networking event of 2010. The event is an ideal opportunity to meet staff and volunteers from other long term conditions organisations and is open to all LTCAS members and associates. Lunch will be provided and there will be opportunities to try out complementary therapies! Read more

The ALISS (Access to Local Information to Support Self Management) project will be running a two-day open innovation workshop at the LTCAS Hub on 11 and 12 March. Read more

Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland holds a variety of events during the year for our member and associate organisations and those working within the long term conditions sector.

The events section will keep you informed and up to date with all LTCAS events and other events and courses relating to long term conditions.

To include your event in the events section, please email event@ltcas.org.uk  using the format below.

• Date of event
• Event name
• Location details
• Brief outline of event with any attachments e.g. booking form/flyer/email address for more information.

Please mention in your email if you would like your event to be featured in the LTCAS monthly e-bulletin.

There are an estimated two million people living with long term conditions in Scotland – that’s more than the number who voted in the 2003 Scottish Parliament elections.

A key reason organisations came together to form LTCAS was to have a stronger voice in campaigning.

Over the past two years we have used that voice to keep long term conditions high on the agenda and to drive policy on self management. However, we know that a wide range of issues - not just those relating to health or the NHS- affect the lives of people with long term conditions.

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LTCAS believes in the power of personal stories from people living with long term conditions.  We are gathering people’s stories so we can present these in a range of formats.

This project will:

• bring LTCAS’ messages to life
• give human faces and voices to our work
• create a tool that can be used by members in their own work and enable people with long term conditions to hear each other’s experiences.