National Voice Guide to Care & Support Planning
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Earlier this month National Voice launched their Guide to Care and Support Planning.
It is a fantastic guide designed for and by people who use services, and carers, with National Voices members and partners.
Why do we need care and support planning?
You live with your condition and/or disability every day and make decisions about how to manage it. Over time, you learn what works best for you, what information, care and support you need and how it fits into your life.
The professional or supporter you work with has skills and knowledge to help you understand their condition or disability and the choices for monitoring, treatment and available support.
Care and support planning makes the best use of you and your professional or supporter's expertise and the time you spend together.
What is care and support planning?
Care and support planning is about you working with a care and support partner to think about:
• what is important to you
• things you can do to live well and stay well
• what care and support you might need from others
Care and support planning is for anyone who has health and care needs over time.
About our guide
Our guide provides an introduction to care and support planning. It introduces the 4 stages of the approach and what should happen at each stage. It also include some information about how care and support planning can help.
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- National Helpline 0300 999 3333 (10am - 4pm Mon - Fri)
- Benefits Helpline 0300 999 0055 (10am - 12pm Mon, Wed and Fri)
- Complimentary information booklets for doctors and other professionals (fully referenced)
- Books and videos
- Website Contacts with legal specialists
- Conferences
- Local support group and helpline contacts
If your Health Care Professional needs some education in fibromyalgia you can request that an FMA UK Health Professionals Pack is sent out to them. All we need is the name of the Health CareProfessional and the address of their practice. We will then send a pack to their surgery addressed from us to them.
You can request a medical pack using this form.
You can find a Support Group near you by contacting the Regional Coordinator for your area. If there does not happen to be a support group near you then maybe you can join with some other members and set one up. Support groups provide a social benefit as well as the opportunity to share tips on coping with fibro. They come in all shapes and sizes and we are often told how they have helped people.
