The ‘Year of Care’ in Leeds: implications for primary care practice

There is a growing policy discourse and empirical evidence which suggests a need for a shift in the way that care is delivered for people with long-term conditions – moving from an expert-driven consultation to one based on collaboration and partnership. Year of Care is an approach to managing long-term conditions, focused on personalised care planning whereby patients work together with the clinician using a collaborative process of shared decision-making to agree goals, identify support needs, develop and implement action plans, and monitor progress. This paper reports the learning from implementing Year of Care in Leeds where nine ‘early adopter’ sites rolled-out the programme. Process and delivery issues are highlighted in the paper, including the challenge of navigating cultural change in General Practice and training and support issues. It is anticipated that this learning and insight will have utility beyond Leeds to other areas adopting greater patient centred care models.

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