PAGB has developed a toolkit, in collaboration with leading healthcare and pharmacy organisations, to support Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to empower people to self-care.
The self-care toolkit outlines supportive guidance, shares best practice case studies and signposts to additional resources which can support healthcare professionals in primary care to facilitate and empower people to self-care.
The toolkit outlines five actions PCNs could take to realise the benefits of self-care for their local population and PCN workforce, including:
- Making best use of community pharmacists
- Adopting interoperable local health and care records
- Tackling health inequalities and improving health literacy
- Upskilling workforce on the benefits of self-care and how to facilitate it
- Appointing a self-care lead to coordinate self-care activity within their PCN
The toolkit can be viewed here.
