Personalised care for people living with Crohn’s and Colitis is:
- Personal: It focuses on what matters to them, rather than what’s the matter with them.
- Holistic: It recognises that a person with IBD is more than just a diagnosis, and instead addresses their physical, emotional well-being and social care needs together as one.
- Involves shared decision making: It actively involves people in decisions about their care. For example, in decisions about medications or surgical interventions.
- Supports self-management: It empowers individuals to take an active role in their care by giving them the information, skills and confidence to self-manage and live as well as possible.
- Equal: It treats people with IBD as an equal partner in decisions about their care, not doing things to them but with them.
- Co-ordinated: It delivers good joined-up care, where information and decisions are shared in a timely manner and include everyone involved in the person’s care.
