IF DISEASE DOES DEVELOP TAKE ACTION WITH THE NHS AS YOUR PARTNER
Obviously NHS services are of central importance for the management of disease. The NHS is essential for accurate diagnosis, acute care when you cannot look after yourself and for starting the right treatment for a chronic, long term condition but for living well with one or more long term conditions what you do, supported by family and other people with the same condition is also of central importance.
For example, many of the effects of long term conditions are due not to the condition itself but to the loss of fitness including loss of muscle strength which occurs after the onset of disease, particularly if a week in hospital has been part of the journey. This is now recognised by the medical profession and called Deconditioning. People should all be given information and encouragement to regain previous levels of activity, at least, as well as receiving rehabilitation from occupational and physiotherapy. This is now called Reconditioning. Using the W:ISH technology everyone will start receiving information about the benefits of exercise and opportunities, local and online, which are available
There is also often a need to deal with the depression and anxiety that often, understandably, occurs after a diagnosis and to provide support the W:ISH technology also gives links to the relevant disease community like DiabetesUK
Obviously NHS services are of central importance for the management of disease. The NHS is essential for accurate diagnosis, acute care when you cannot look after yourself and for starting the right treatment for a chronic, long term condition but for living well with one or more long term conditions what you do, supported by family and other people with the same condition is also of central importance.
For example, many of the effects of long term conditions are due not to the condition itself but to the loss of fitness including loss of muscle strength which occurs after the onset of disease, particularly if a week in hospital has been part of the journey. This is now recognised by the medical profession and called Deconditioning. People should all be given information and encouragement to regain previous levels of activity, at least, as well as receiving rehabilitation from occupational and physiotherapy. This is now called Reconditioning. Using the W:ISH technology everyone will start receiving information about the benefits of exercise and opportunities, local and online, which are available
There is also often a need to deal with the depression and anxiety that often, understandably, occurs after a diagnosis and to provide support the W:ISH technology also gives links to the relevant disease community like DiabetesUK