During it's running, the Chronic Conditions Management (CCM) Demonstrator Programme was keen to ensure that patients and carers are actively involved in decisions about their care, that they are engaged with across Wales and that their involvement sits at the heart of service planning and delivery. One mechanism to inform this was to interview patients (and carers) themselves and identifying their own personal outcomes and experiences, captured through their personal stories. In conjunction with the University of Glamorgan, the CCM Demonstrators have captured a number of patient stories in different formats-visual, audio and text-from across the three Demonstrator areas. All stories will be able to view on a brand new dedicated website which will be linked from www.ccmdemonstrators.com in June/July 2011.

The Cardiff Chronic Conditions Management (CCM) Demonstrator is keen to share its innovate learning within the sphere of CCM with a wide as possible audience. With that in mind a series of roadshows are being held across a number of Cardiff hospital sites from the end of January to the beginning of February 2011. The roadshows will consist of a manned displayed stand which will have a variety of reports and also learning, evaluation and development papers available to take away for information. These will provide a wide range of information including 'top tips' and lessons learnt if you want to learn about the work or try and improve services yourself. The dates, times and venues are as follows: Llandough Hospital 24th January & 1st February 2011 (10am - 4pm) UHW Concourse 26th & 31st January 2011 (10am - 4pm) Whitchurch Hospital (Canteen) 27th January 2011 (10am - 4pm) Barry Hospital 28th January 2011 (10am - 4pm) West Wing 3rd February 2011 (10am - 4pm) St David's Hospital 4th February 2011 (10am - 4pm) For more information on the Chronic Conditions Management Demonstrators please visit the CCM Demonstrator website: www.ccmdemonstrators.com or contact Ruth Jordan, Programme Lead for the Cardiff Demonstrator, on 02920 742262/02920 744991

The Chronic Conditions Management Demonstrator Programme is currently undertaking a survey throughout December 2010 and January 2011 regarding the work of the Demonstrators and their impact on CCM in Wales.  Even if you know very little about the work of the Demonstrators, your completion of the web based questionnaire will help support the design of future Welsh Assembly/NHS programmes and their communication plans. The questionnaire will only take a few minutes and we would like to thank you in advance for your time and interest. Note the questionnaire is available in English and Welsh. The questionnaire can be completed by following this link: http://www.ors.org.uk/surveys/CCMDemonstrators The results of the survey will also be made available in the new year and published on the Demonstrator website for general viewing. Many thanks, CCM Demonstrator National Team