"Care planning can be defined as a process which offers people active involvement in deciding, agreeing and owning how their diabetes will be managed. It aims to help people with diabetes achieve optimum health through a partnership approach with health professionals in order to learn about diabetes, manage it and related conditions better and to cope with it in their daily lives."
Report from the joint Department of Health and Diabetes UK Care Planning Working Group - 04 Dec 2006
COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – can be a very distressing condition for patients; care costs the NHS around £2 billion a year and yet services can vary enormously across the country and between practices. Earlier this year, ESyDoc completed its re-design project with its partner, AstraZeneca UK Ltd, and a local fully-integrated service now offers seamless care to all patients in East Surrey.
The newly formed Shadow Health & Well-being Board met for the first time on Friday 13th May, bringing together Adult Social Care, Children’s Services, Public Health and Health Commissioners for the first time. The Board hopes to help ensure that in Surrey there is a successful launch of GP commissioning.
At the NAPC national GP-led Commissioning Conference on 10th May, ESyDoc Chairman Joe McGilligan took the opportunity to raise his frustrations regarding the barriers to lack of progress on GPCC in Surrey, directly with Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley.
