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This edition shares lots of news and updates from the 2017 Network Event ‘Care and support planning across a lifetime’. Topics include overviews of keynote presentations from Alf Collins and Sue Arnott, challenges posed by moving onto a ‘multimorbidity’ approach to care and support planning, raising professional issues in the conversation and the Year of Care IMPACT tool.

In this special edition of The House Journal developed for Year of Care trainers we focus on the important role that trainers and training play in engaging and supporting teams with the changes that need to happen to make care and support planning the norm.  Included are updates on resources and training modules to help support local implementation.

In this issue we turn our attention to care and support planning centred on community teams, including people who are housebound. An exemplar of this work is highlighted in a featured story from Carlisle Healthcare kindly shared with us by Dr Robert Westgate. We also explain how care and support planning training can help meet the indicators in the 2017/19 CQUIN.6

This edition focuses on the Year of Care collaboration with the British Heart Foundation and Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland to implement care and support planning for people with cardiovascular disease.

In this edition we focus on facilitation and support for clinical teams to implement care and support planning. This topic was requested by the community following the Network Event in June. Teams from Thames Valley, Hardwick and Newcastle and Gateshead volunteered to share their local experience.

This ‘post-event’ edition shares news and updates from the Network Event ‘Building a better house’. It also details new resources that were launched at the event including a newly updated practice pack.

This edition details the programme and logistics, speakers and workshops ahead of our 2016 Network Event.1

The very first edition of The House Journal where we share some local stories together with an announcement about our 2016 Network Event and some background to care and support planning from the Year of Care Chair – Dr Sue Roberts and National Director – Lindsay Oliver.