LTCAS

LTCAS have recently published a review of Self Management Week 2011.  This evaluation sets out:

• What we expected to do during the week
• What we actually did during the week
• What difference the week made

The evaluation is available to download here

Self Management Week 2011

The aim of the week was to promote the awareness raising campaign 'My Condition, My Terms, My Life ' and other self management work that is happening across the third sector, health and social care.

On Tuesday, LTCAS members and partners came together for our Self Management Showcase Day held at the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow. Michael Matheson MSP, Minister for Public Health, was joined by 140 delegates to experience a choice of performances, workshops, information stands and personal stories – all highlighting different aspects of self management support.

Many LTCAS supporters held events up and down the country throughout the week – from the Thistle Foundation inviting people to experience their self management Training & Consultancy service, to Angus Cardiac Group hosting information sessions, to NHS Highland information roadshows held across Argyll & Bute.

The week ended in Aberdeen for our second Showcase day, focusing on the importance of information and partnerships in the community, and again featuring a range of motivational local and national organisations, and impressive individuals.

Self Management Awards

LTCAS hosted the very successful Self Management Awards on Tuesday evening at the parliament.  These awards highlighted examples good practice in different areas of Scotland and showcased the amazing and inspirational work of individuals and organisations.

We were overwhelmed by the quality of applications and shortlisted applications.  LTCAS would like to congratulate all organisations who submitted an application and those organisations who were shortlisted for these awards.    We are delighted to announce the winners of these awards:

Self Management Partnership of the Year - Winner, CALM Project, GAMH      
Shortlisted organisations:
Angus Long Term Conditions Support Groups
Pain Association

Thanks again to all of those involved at these awards!  See our flikr account for photos here

IMPACT – an Evaluation of the Self Management Fund for Scotland

 

LTCAS launched the final evaluation report for this first allocation of £4million for the Self Management Fund. The report demonstrates not only the impact that LTCAS has had in developing and delivering the fund, but the impact the 81 projects have had in advancing support for self management all over Scotland. The report highlights common themes from the projects, illustrates good practice and demonstrates learning and sharing through a variety of Case Studies. 

 

You can download the report on our here

 

LTCAS were also delighted to announce during Self Management Week 2011, a further investment from the Scottish Government of £1,765,000 was made to 30 existing projects to develop their work, strengthen their partnerships and support their sustainability. LTCAS are continuing negotiations with the Scottish Government for future allocations of the Self Management Fund.

 

You can read more details of the 30 successful projects on here

 

My Condition, My Terms, My Life – raising awareness of self management

 

The My Condition, My Terms, My Life campaign has been developed and delivered by LTCAS with funding from the Scottish Government Health and Healthcare Improvement Directorate and support from the Social Marketing Gateway. It was launched during Scotland’s first Self Management Week (October 2010) and is now entering its second phase.

 

The campaign’s aim is to raise awareness of self management and increase people’s understanding of what it means and how they can get support (and in the case of health professionals, how they can support people to self manage).

 

Following last year’s launch, the campaign has generated a great deal of media coverage across national and local television, radio and newspapers. Campaign materials have been used in a variety of settings including GP surgeries and hospital waiting rooms. NHS Inform have highlighted the campaign and the resource directory linked to it, to help signpost people to resources. Campaign posters were displayed in all 1225 Community Pharmacy windows across Scotland between 11th July and 15th August 2011.

 

88% of people living with long term conditions were aware of the term ‘self management’ compared with only 57% before the campaign.

 

Ongoing evaluation has been embedded in the approach to the campaign, primarily through dialogue with stakeholders. To provide a more quantitative measure a survey was undertaken to gauge awareness of self management across a representative sample of the Scottish population. This was undertaken by Scottish Opinion as part of their regular Omnibus Survey. The survey results suggest a significant shift in awareness, particularly among people living with long term conditions. Please contact us for more details about the campaign, resources or results of the Omnibus survey.

 

We are already looking forward to Self Management Week 2012, but meantime we are grateful to everyone who has helped to celebrate achievements and good practice across Scotland this year.