Do you live with a long-term health condition?

Healthwatch Devon want to hear from people living with long-term conditions to find out what they really think about the support they get from local health services in Devon.

A long-term condition could include things like asthma, diabetes, arthritis, chronic kidney disease or heart disease.

Local health managers want to make sure that people living with long-term conditions get all the support they need to manage their own care and live the best lives they can.

To do this they need to understand how people feel about the care that they currently receive. We are running a survey to help them gather people’s views.

Healthwatch Devon will use the feedback from this survey to inform health service managers about how to best support people living with long-term conditions in Devon. This may mean making changes to the services they provide as well as developing new ways of providing services.

Any proposals for changes will be trialed this winter before they are implemented. This should help ensure that these proposals are fit for purpose when they are introduced.

To take part in the survey, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/managingyourowncare or contact Healthwatch Devon on 0800 520 0640, for a paper copy of the survey.

The closing date for the survey is Friday 21 November.

Anyone with experience of living with or caring for someone with a long-term health condition is invited to contact Martin Parkes at Healthwatch Devon for further information about the Managing Your Own Care survey.  You can email Martin on mparkes@devonrcc.org.uk or telephone 01392 248919 ext. 106.

Healthwatch Devon is the independent consumer champion for the people of Devon and is the local partner of Healthwatch England. Local and National Healthwatch has been set up as part of the government’s Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Visit the Healthwatch Devon website at www.healthwatchdevon.co.uk, follow them on Twitter: @HwDevon or find them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/healthwatchdevon