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Self care support: A compendium of practical examples across the whole system of health and social care

This compendium describes a range of approaches to self care support across all the settings in the whole system of health and social care. The aim is to increase awareness of the wide scope of self care support; illustrate examples of innovative service and practice developments; identify where self care support might contribute to achieving NHS targets; and encourage wider uptake of self care support models.