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NCB Now: Focus on disability healthcare

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Recent years have seen a shift in health policy where patients are no longer seen as passive recipients of care, but active partners who can take increased responsibility for managing their health.

Managing My Way, a project run by the Council for Disabled Children (CDC), is exploring how disabled children and young people can take more responsibility for managing their own health conditions.

Managing My Way is a two-year Department of Health-funded project, which will help health staff to understand the issues disabled children and young people face and what they need in order to feel in control of their own healthcare.

The first phase of the project has been to conduct two literature reviews, one exploring the policy context for all patients but with a focus on children and young people, and the second looking at specific issues faced by disabled children and young people in making decisions about their healthcare.

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