title: Expert patients: the Service User Mentorship Programme.
abstract: As part of its remit to improve the lives of people with long-term conditions, the Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company has partnered with South Central Strategic Health Authority and a number of local universities to provide Service User Mentors for students on the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care Long Term Conditions Pathway. This article discusses how giving students the opportunity to have greater insight into what it means to live with a chronic condition, and an understanding of and improved practice in effective self-management, can support and improve health and social care outcomes for people living with long-term conditions.
authors.affiliation: Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company.gill.stokes@eppcic.co.uk
authors.forename: Gill
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stokes
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D010358:Patient Participation; D012648:Self Care