Expert patients failing to relieve NHS burden...

Expert patients failing to relieve NHS burden, report says - Guardian

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"So-called "expert patients", who are trained to coach people with illnesses including asthma, diabetes and pulmonary diseases, are giving patients confidence but are not reducing the strain on the NHS, the report says.

The expert patients programme is key to the government's plan to reduce reliance on hospital care for people with chronic illnesses. Launched in 2001, it has had £18m in funding and will involve 100,000 people by 2012.

The report finds that patients on the programmes are more confident about living with their conditions, but emergency admissions of the long-term ill have remained "stubbornly unaltered".

Stephanie Taylor, senior clinical lecturer, Centre for Health Sciences, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, said: "The people who fund the programmes should be aware of the lack of evidence supporting their use.""

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