Some options are listed below.

• Review your practice leaflet, posters, information leaflets or website to include enhanced self care messages
• Run an educational event with the patient participation group at your local surgery or with a local community group to discuss how self care can be promoted or supported locally
• Check whether your CCG has resources you could use to promote self care with your patients and customers
• Promote self care at a local community event
• Identify ways to improve individual, team and organisational support for self care in your pharmacy.

Consider where you are currently in the delivery of self care, and you and your team’s ability to integrate its messages with those supporting greater self care in the future. List your key priorities under the following headings.

Activities – which are your top two?
Contacts – who do you need to tell?
Participants – who will benefit?
Messages – how will you communicate?
Timeline – when will you do what?
Outcomes – what is your key outcome?