Long Term Conditions
What did we say in Healthy Ambitions?*
1
The Long Term Conditions Pathway concentrated their work on three areas:
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Care of older people with multiple conditions
These areas were chosen as they are areas of concern across the region – for example emergency admissions for diabetic comas were twice as high in some areas of the region compared with others.
They therefore recommended that:
- Personal care plans should be agreed annually with patients to manage their long term conditions
- The NHS should actively identify people in the community at risk from long term conditions and support them to reduce their risk of needing hospital admission
- There should be more support for people to manage their own conditions
- There should be better coordination of care between professionals and across services
- There should be better use of new technology to help self-care
- The NHS should have a greater focus on prevention of conditions such as diabetes.
View full section >