Self-management - Bridges Self Management

Curiosity, Connections, and Padayon: Building Bridges for Stroke Support in the Philippines

Bridges Projects

How can a series of Zoom calls, bringing together over 20 people separated by more than 6500 miles, lead to a ground breaking stroke support initiative? Through a shared vision,... Read more

A New Dawn

Acute setting

I work in a Level 1 Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, in a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist-led multi-disciplinary team (MDT). I attended the Bridges workshop in 2017 and having used it successfully with Stroke and... Read more

Mini Victories

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On 26th April we launched the ‘Bridges to recovery after trauma’ book to healthcare staff at St George’s Major Trauma Centre, London. Staff were invited to join two-hour sessions in... Read more

What does ‘Self-Manage’ really mean?

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Self manage’… a complex process through which you complete your day to day life, work towards goals, and maintain your roles. I relate this to the idea of making it... Read more

Trust World Café: stroke care

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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... Read more

‘Bridges methodology’: defining our values 10 years on

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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... Read more

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

Acute setting

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. ... Read more

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

Group setting

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... Read more

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

Group setting

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” Ani DiFranco Self-management is becoming more established as a way to improve... Read more

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

Acute setting

“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... Read more

Equity and access to self-management support

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"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... Read more