Flare to care – future management of long-term conditions

To promote citizens with long-term conditions as authors of their own health data and competent self-managers supported by specialist clinical guidance that is tailored to their situation through a novel technology-driven management solution. Through close collaborative working with patients, clinical commissioning groups and demand for an out-of-hospital experience, the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) service at East Surrey Hospital (ESH) was radically redesigned. In 2014, a new model of care that put patients at the centre of the care pathway and opened access to all patients with IBD through telephone and email support enabled citizens …