This webinar is designed to encourage & enable health care professionals address behavioural issues they face when delivering health care for their patients.
Healthcare professionals recognise that the management of a long term condition is a partnership between the patient & HCP, however all too often patients adopt a passive role and ask the HCP to deliver all the health outcome changes.
Behavioural change takes time, professional confidence and training; and as such the management of long term conditions tend to be focussed on medical management rather than the equally important behaviour change to support self management.
The webinar will cover some of the psychology concerned with enabling patients to make changes in their lives and some of the techniques HCPs can use to encourage patients to see that these behaviour changes are sustained and beneficial. The webinar will also concentrate on specific issues relating to the management of respiratory disease in Primary Care, including changes in inhalers, the use of non pharmacological therapies, smoking cessation and obesity management.
After the webinar HCPs should feel more confident to use health behaviour change in their patients with chronic illness and be able to empower patients to make the important changes in their medical and lifestyle management which should improve outcomes.
The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session.
This webinar is being made available exclusively to PCRS Peer Support Networks within the East of England region