SMILE for Self Management

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LTCAS are launching the "SMILE for Self Management" campaign to raise awareness of self management in Scotland.  The campaign is linked to a national awareness raising campaign and to Scotland's first Self Management Week 4-8 October 2010.

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The campaign aims to allow people from all walks of life to show their support for self management in a simple and fun way.

How Do I Take Part?

We are asking people to take a photo of themselves, their group or organisation holding an oversized SMILE over their own nose and mouth.  We have provided a selection of SMILEs for download.

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Then simply send your picture back to us.

The campaign has a Facebook page where SMILEs can be downloaded, and pictures taken uploaded.  Keep checking our website for other ways to get involved.

We will use the SMILE photos to make a collage (perhaps in the shape of a map Scotland) to show that people across Scotland SMILE to support self management.  Images and the collage will also be used on our website, promotional banners and posters which we will display at exhibitions and conferences.

Who Should Get Involved?

Anyone and everyone!  We would like everyone in Scotland to SMILE for Self Management!

We hope that a range of people, groups and organisations in Scotland will show their support for self management for self management.

Staff at Marie Curie Cancer Care Smile-ing for Self Management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSPs smiled to show their support for the Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland ‘SMILE for self management’ campaign at the Scottish Parliament on 1 July

Ian Welsh, Chief Executive of LTCAS, said: “LTCAS is delighted that so many MSPs have shown their support by smiling for self management. MSPs have recognised that individuals with long term conditions are people, not patients, and that self management must be at the heart of meeting the growing challenge of long term conditions in Scotland."


Party leaders, Tavish Scott, Annabelle Goldie and Iain Gray

Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon

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