Thursday 22 May 2025 | 13:15-14:30

Format: Workshop

Stream: People

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Chair: Bob Klaber Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; England

 

Building resilient and resourceful people and communities

Public health plays a pivotal role in enhancing resilience by actively involving people in their own well-being, illness prevention Services to help people ‘stay healthy at home’, self-management support, intergenerational and community based programmes and health skills education for people are very much needed. Health and care services will only become sustainable in the face of increasing life expectancy ( with chronic disease) and growing demand by recognising the importance of the environments in which we live and enhancing the wider social support opportunities( peer support networks) in promoting good health. We would like to share with you how we co-produce/co-design self-management interventions with patients and health care professionals. Also, how our quality assurance framework supports individuals who live with chronic conditions become facilitators of self-management interventions within their own communities across Wales. This supports them to share their own lived experience together with quality training and ongoing support. Please come along to hear more about how we’re working to achieve this in Wales, from both a patients and health care professionals’ perspective and how this could be a foundation for the future model of health and care services in Wales, UK.

In this session, participants will:

• Understand the value of Self-management including Co-production and shared decision making


• Understand the power of self-efficacy, empowerment and how self-management interventions can support health systems now and into the future. – Realisation of the possible solution to support the growing demand of chronic conditions in Wales ( 48% of adult population, National Survey )


• Hear about our development of a new Self-Management course for Fibromyalgia patients that was co-produced with patients and HCP’s ( first available course for Fibromyalgia in Wales)

Alan Lawrie NHS Executive; Wales

Christina Roach NHS Executive; Wales

Jules Godden NHS Executive; Wales