Categories for Self-management

  • A New Dawn

    bradmin

    24 Sep 2018
    I work in a Level 1 Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, in a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist-led multi-disciplinary team (MDT)…

  • Mini Victories

    bradmin

    2 Jul 2018
    On 26th April we launched the ‘Bridges to recovery after trauma’ book to healthcare staff at St George’s Major Trauma Centre, London…

  • What does ‘Self-Manage’ really mean?

    bradmin

    5 Mar 2018
    Self manage’… a complex process through which you complete your day to day life, work towards goals, and maintain your roles…

  • Trust World Café: stroke care

    Billy Mann

    9 Feb 2017
    Tess Baird is an unstoppable force. In November 2016 she gathered together a few colleagues and contacts in a small room in London’s Mile End Hospital to explain her bonkers idea. She wanted clinicians and service users to get to understand and communicate with one another in more meaningful and effective ways. The subject in… View Article

  • ‘Bridges methodology’: defining our values 10 years on

    Lucinda

    4 Jan 2017
    Our methodology describes how we work with healthcare teams, people and families through research and improvement projects and interprofessional training, to co-produce a Bridges self-management support package suited to the local context. This is in keeping with our mission as a social enterprise: to improve the lives of people living with acute and long-term conditions,… View Article

  • Starting self-management support early in the acute setting: happier staff, happier patients, reduced length of stay?

    Lucinda

    11 Nov 2016
    Imagine that you have spent months in hospital following numerous plastic surgeries.  One Friday morning the surgeon comes to your bedside and says that you are fit to return home.  However, there’s one problem; you haven’t been out of bed for weeks, and now you feel that you can’t get out of bed.  You see… View Article

  • What is uniquely ‘Bridges’ about this stroke group? Helping others to help yourself

    Billy Mann

    20 Jun 2016
    On four successive Mondays in April 2016 I helped with on a research project into whether the step process method in stroke rehabilitation as pioneered by Bridges Self-Management can be made to work in a group setting. The more interesting details of the study, by University College London’s (UCL) Ella Clark, will I’m sure appear in more scholarly quarters,… View Article

  • Testing Bridges in a group setting for stroke: first research reflections

    Ella Clark

    25 May 2016
    “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.”  Ani DiFrancoSelf-management is becoming more established as a way to improve clinical outcomes, feelings of loneliness, quality of life, and reducing the burden of care on health care systems1–3. For stroke this is particularly important, as it… View Article

  • The role of listening to people’s stories in supporting self-management

    Petra

    5 May 2016
    “Small, but massive” – the stories that make me ‘me’Sometimes, when listening, a small fragment of an unfolding narrative will stand out, bringing a moment of clarity which then sticks – those are the ‘gems’. I remember during one of the early focus groups for co-designing Bridges in Brain Injury there had been some discussion… View Article

  • Equity and access to self-management support

    Liz Livingstone

    3 Feb 2016
    “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress”Niels Bohr With over 60% of UK adults living with a long term condition, there is a great deal of interest in how best to support self-management [1]. We know from research that self-management can have a positive effect on… View Article