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Can virtual reality tackle phobias?

New and innovative treatments are being trialled to help treat anxiety. Read more about the use of virtual reality to help people address their phobias. 

Read more at Medical Apps.…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on February 22, 2018 at 22:30 — No Comments

A new and powerful relationship with patients

The NHS five year forward view talks about harnessing the 'renewable energy represented by patients and communities' and the need to 'engage with communities and citizens in new ways, involving them directly in decisions about the future of health and care services'. We know that one of the founding principles underpinning the NHS at its best is that it’s ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’.…

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Added by Adam May on July 4, 2016 at 11:00 — 1 Comment

What are your favourite resources for self-management support?

We all have our favourite resources and toolkits. How about we all post our favourite ones here and share with the wider Long-Term Conditions Network. 

Supporting people to self-manage

This is a brief literature review from the NHS Scotland 2012. Few years old now, but does highlight some useful key…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on March 5, 2016 at 12:28 — No Comments

Visit the new, revamped Health Navigator website

Visit the new website. There are lots of great new features including a lot more videos, language resources, approved apps and more.

Let us know what you like, what you don't and suggestions for continuing to improve and…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on May 11, 2015 at 19:56 — No Comments

SPARX – Online e-therapy for Youth Mental Health

SPARX is an online e-therapy tool provided by the University of Auckland, as an initiative of the

Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project.



SPARX is now available to help young people learn skills to deal with feeling down, depressed

or stressed. The effectiveness of SPARX has been proven to be as good as standard care in a

randomised control trial…

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Added by Debra Clark on June 18, 2014 at 17:00 — No Comments

Kings Fund – Building the House of Care Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions – Oct 2013  “This paper describes a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ –…

Kings Fund – Building the House of Care

Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions – Oct 2013

 “This paper describes a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ – that aims to deliver proactive, holistic and patient-centred care for people with long-term conditions. It incorporates learning from a number of…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on October 10, 2013 at 12:23 — No Comments

Self-Management Support Toolkit

The Health Navigator NZ team and ADHB have recently released a Self-Management Support Toolkit. This contains useful resources, a programme directory and information that may be of interest to viewers of this website. 

To view and download click…

Added by Health Navigator NZ on November 21, 2011 at 6:22 — 1 Comment

Evidence: Helping people help themselves

Great resource recently published by The Health Foundation in the UK. Provides " a review of the evidence considering whether it is worthwhile to support self-management." 

 

Excellent list on page vi highlighting general components that have been found to work well to support self-management. 

Nearly all of the elements listed here are key to both the Stanford programme and the Flinders programme such as problem solving, goal setting, developing care plans in…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on October 16, 2011 at 8:00 — No Comments

Australasian Long-Term Health Conditions Conference

Hope you have all heard about the Long-Term Conditions conference we're hosting in collaboration with a number of DHBs and the Heart Foundation. Tell your colleagues and friends and look forward to seeing you there!

 

The dates are Thursday 7th - Friday 8th April, 2011.

Check out the excellent line up of…

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Added by Health Navigator NZ on March 12, 2011 at 13:12 — 4 Comments

Welcome!

Kia ora, Talofa, welcome to all,
Great to see more people have joined the SMN website this week. Tell your friends and colleagues and start adding comments to the groups, discussions, resources to the resource library and even start your first blog like me!

We look forward to seeing lots of ideas and stories being shared.

Best wishes from Janine and the Health Navigator NZ team.

Added by Health Navigator NZ on April 25, 2010 at 23:48 — No Comments

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