Managing Long Term Conditions

Learning from Kaiser Permanente

 "The main lesson from Kaiser is its ability to minimise the use of acute hospital beds through an integrated approach to service delivery."

six key principles integration active management of patients doctors are leaders keeping patients out of hospital self care and shared care use information

Contents PEC Paper 2 - Learning From Kaiser - Briefing for clinicians The Kaiser Permanente Approach Bob Crane Leadership and Culture in Kaiser Sharon Levine Patients as Partners: Improving Health and Cost Outcomes with Self-Care and Chronic Disease Self-Management David Sobel   "Learning from Kaiser Permanente: a progress report" Professor Chris Ham, Strategy Unit Director Recommended reading: "Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with California's Kaiser Permanente", British Medical Journal. What PCTs are doing Summary, project frameworks, and presentations from each pilot site. The Kaiser Story Kaiser Permanente website Recommended reading: "From Chaos to Care: the Promise of Team-based Medicine" David Lawrence, Perseus Books, 2002 Self Care The Healthwise Handbook