Publication of “Patient Education / Self Management Programmes for People with Long Term Conditions 2019/20”

The Department of Health has today published “Patient Education / Self Management Programmes for People with Long Term Conditions 2019/20”.

This publication of annual figures relates to Patient Education / Self Management Programmes in Northern Ireland.

Key Facts and Figures:

There were 32 patient education / self management programmes provided a total of 1,199^{^[1]} times with 14,063^{^[2]} participants in 2019/20.
Approximately 1 in 4 participants (27%) attended a diabetes type 2 specific programme with 15% of participants attending a programme for COPD, and 13% attending a programme for cardiac, and dementia conditions respectively.
Of the 14,063 participants, 73% were attending a patient education / self management programme delivered by the five HSC Trusts.
9,645 participants (69%) attended a programme that was statutory funded.

Notes to editors:

This information was collated by Community Information Branch within the DoH.
Statistics detailed within the bulletin present information on patient education / self management programmes for long term conditions collected from Health & Social Care (HSC) Trusts and independent sector programme providers. It details information on the type, provision, frequency and Trust area of the programmes delivered during the year 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.
This publication is available on the Department of Health website.
Further information is available from:

Community Information Branch
Department of Health
Room 11
Annexe 2
Castle Buildings
Stormont
Belfast BT4 3SQ

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