Proactive Management of Long-term Conditions

This course is delivered through blended learning, and includes workshops which will focus on the development of practical and collaborative inter-professional skills and discussion-based seminar groups which are supplemented by directed learning.

To help facilitate this approach, online evidence-based resources will be made available to you.

You will also be expected to work collaboratively with professional colleagues in your service area to ensure that you have the advanced skills and competencies to proactively manage individuals requiring holistic care for a long-term condition within your professional service area.

Outside of the classroom you will also be encouraged to further your own studies and contextualise your learning to your own service area through independent study.

This course typically covers:

- Integrated care and collaborative inter-professional working
- Case management and personalisation
- Health promotion
- The wellbeing principle
- Empowerment of individuals
- Self-management
- The psychological impact of long term conditions
- Concept of the self
- Motivation
- Choice, advocacy and the role of the carer in decision making