Long Term Conditions Collaborative: Making the Connections – Food For Thought [Publication]

The purpose of this guidance note is to support practitioners to better understand the continuum of health improvement, anticipatory care and self management supports and the concept of community-led health. This is linked to a desire for further guidance on how to tailor supports and interventions to an individual’s life circumstances, capability and readiness for self management and enablement.

The document highlights the synergy across the Long Term Conditions Collaborative, Keep Well anticipatory care programmes and wider health improvement networks as well as community, voluntary sector, health and local authority supports for health improvement and self management.

This resource will support practitioners to adopt an enabling and anticipatory approach – engaging and empowering people to take decisions and make choices which improve their health, wellbeing and health-related behaviours to reduce escalation of risk, need and dependency.