What we provide
We deliver three core pillars of activity
Workshops: we deliver virtual workshops in the Bridges Self-Management programme for healthcare teams, co-produced and co-delivered by people with lived experience, and adapted and contextualised to the needs of services.
Sustaining Behaviour Change: we offer ongoing sustainability support to teams, including peer coaching, Bridges Books and resources, and regular sharing events for practitioners. We also provide bespoke packages to teams to evaluate impact and deliver further training and support.
Research and Innovation: our work is informed by our comprehensive research pipeline, led by Professor Fiona Jones. With current projects including the Listen Long-Covid clinical trial, TULAY, a 4-year project with community healthcare teams in the Philippines and TIPTOE, a randomised controlled trail reviewing self-management support for people living with joint pain, our work is ever evolving and supported by a strong evidence base.
Sectors we’ve worked in
About us
Bridges Self-Management is a social enterprise, founded in 2013 by Professor Fiona Jones, after 15 years of healthcare research from St George’s University London and Kingston University to understand how best to support individuals to self-manage their long-term conditions. We now work with hundreds of practitioners in health and social care teams across the world every year to use and sustain the Bridges Self-Management approach in their practice.
We have carried on being driven by curiosity to explore what makes self-management support the most effective and we continue to be active collaborators in research projects across the UK and globally. Bridges has been used in New Zealand, Estonia, South Africa, Sweden, Portugal and the Philippines.
Our Social Mission
Bridges inspires people to live well and work differently. We are motivated by liberating practitioners from a responsibility to ‘fix’ or ‘cure’, instead we open minds to an alternative possibility for both practitioners and patients.
We believe that:
- We need to support people holistically, not treat individual conditions.
- We need to build people’s confidence to manage their health, not feel the responsibility to manage and fix every issue.
- We need to involve people in service design, not deliver the services we think people want.
- We need to work together with people using our services, and learn from the expertise we all bring.