Jacqui Gladwin: Principal Lecturer Department of Nursing MMU

Where Now?

Empowering Patients: Drivers for Change

DH 2013, Care in local communities: A new vision and model for district nursing supports the empowerment of patients and sharing information with them to achieve improved outcomes

Royal College of GPs & Royal College of Nursing are driving changes forward to support the agenda

Patient Groups want change and many are proactive about moving the agenda forward

What are the Challenges?

Moving Forward and not allowing the agenda to become side tracked or derailed

Preparing the health care workforce to support empowered patients and embedding concepts in curricula

Preparing patients to work in partnership with health professionals and to manage information

The Role of Nurses

Nurses have a major role in supporting the estimated 15 million patients in the UK with long term conditions

The empowered patient can present challenges for nurses and nurses need preparing appropriately to facilitate this

6Cs: Care, Compassion, Communication, Courage, Competency, Commitment are fundamental values in nursing and partnership working is at the heart of all of them

Making Sharing of Information: Just what we do!