Long Term Conditions
Supporting, caring for and treating people with long term conditions will be the dominant theme for health and social care services in the first half of the century. A stronger emphasis on self care, the rapid expansion of case management and new approaches to disease management will influence working practice throughout primary, community secondary and voluntary sectors.
Speech made by Dr David Colin-Thomé OBE, National Director for Primary Care for the Long Term Conditions Conference 2009
The workforce has a key role to play in the delivery of policy on long term conditions. The vision for the future delivery of health and social care has to be grounded in a vision for the development of the workforce that delivers it.
Planning and developing the workforce to enable appropriate services to be delivered presents a new set of challenges, which include:
- New roles
- New models of care
- New types of team working across organisational boundaries and new settings.
On these pages you can access the Managing Long Term Conditions resource pack together with information on a range of tools, resources and case studies related to developing the workforce to deliver care to those with long term conditions.
Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team has been commissioned by the Department of Health to provide a range of resources to support integrated workforce planning in long term conditions.
Managing Long Term Conditions conference, 7th April 2009
Workforce Projects Team showcased long term conditions resources, together with a DVD highlighting them at the highly successful Managing Long Term Conditions conference in Harrogate on 7th April. Workforce Projects Team led the work stream 'creating a workforce to support long term conditions' delivering several presentations throughout the day and exhibiting resources in the main conference hall. Click here for more information >>>
Patient Pathway
The NHS and Social Care Long Term Conditions Model builds on the wealth of local and international experiences and innovations to improve the health and quality of life of those with long term conditions.
For example, it reflects learning from US models such as Evercare and Kaiser Permanente
Self care
Self care is an important element of the personalisation agenda. There is increasing importance surrounding supported self care in developing and delivering services for people with long term conditions that are based around the needs of the individual planned in partnership with them.
Workforce Planning
Effective workforce planning in long term conditions ensures you will have a workforce of the right size, with the right skills, organised in the right way within the budget that you can afford, delivering services to provide the best possible care.
Workforce planning resources
National Priorities 
