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Managing the care of people with long-term conditions: second report of session 2014-15: volume 1: report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 222
- Place of publication:
- London
The Health Committee set out to examine the way in which the NHS and social care system in England supported people with long-term conditions. It sought evidence and comments on a range of issues, including outside hospital treatment and cost and effectiveness of redesigning services accordingly; readiness of local NHS and social care services to treat patients with long-term conditions (including multiple conditions) within the community; practical assistance offered to commissioners to support the design of services which promote community-based care and provide for the integration of health and social care in the management of long-term conditions; ability of NHS and social care providers to treat multi-morbidities and the patient as a person rather than focusing on individual conditions; obesity as a contributory factor to conditions including diabetes, heart failure and coronary heart disease and how it might be addressed; examples of effective integration of services across health, social care and other services which treat and manage long-term conditions; implications of an ageing population for the prevalence and type of long-term conditions, together with evidence about the extent to which existing services will have the capacity to meet future demand; interaction between mental health conditions and long-term physical health conditions and extent to which patients are being offered personalised services (including evidence of their contribution to better outcomes). This report outlines the findings of the Committee’s inquiry and makes specific recommendations with respect to three broad areas, including: the strategic direction of services for long-term conditions, clinical care for people with long-term conditions, and managing the system to deliver better care for long-term conditions. (Edited publisher abstract)