Partha Kar: Changing the narrative around self-management

One of the biggest challenges for any healthcare system is how to support patients with chronic disease. While focusing on availability professionals understandable, this may mean neglecting basic tenets disease management and greater challenge that lies elsewhere. To me, managing well founded three principles: self- management, peer support, access trained professionals. We do not spend enough time effort first two. For instance, in self-management much attention given what perceives be best way deliver it instead actually needed or even relevant today. A case point education programmes diabetes care. Until start covid-19 pandemic these still …