Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Plan for Patients will take steps to empower patients with chronic conditions to self manage their conditions.

‘Our plan for patients’ will align with the NHS Long Term Plan, which set out the importance of supported self-management, where appropriate. This aims to empower individuals to live well with their conditions and includes the promotion of health and wellbeing coaches, social prescribing, peer support and the Personalised Care Institute’s training modules, which will equip health and care staff to have tailored conversations to give people more choice and control over their mental and physical health.