Taking the temperature of health and care services for people living with long term conditions

"The benefit of local decision-making is that services can be designed to meet the needs of local communities. However, this has to be backed with the right funding, incentives and regulation to ensure commissioners and providers can do the right thing for patients and are held to account for results they achieve."

Vital signs: Taking the temperature of health and care services for people living with long term conditions
The Richmond Group of Charities
March 2015

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Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions

"The management of care for people with long-term conditions should be proactive, holistic, preventive and patient-centred."

Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions
A Coulter, S Roberts, A Dixon
The King's Fund
October 2013

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Management of long term conditions

"Our analysis concluded that without unprecedented, sustained increases in health service productivity, including more effective management of chronic conditions, funding for the NHS in England will need to increase in real terms between 2015/16 and 2021/22 to avoid cuts to the service or a fall in quality."

Management of long term conditions: Health Committee inquiry submission: Parliamentary Briefing
Nuffield Trust
May 2013

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Peer support in long term conditions

"The research found evidence of peer support activity for people with long term conditions across Scotland with positive impact on emotional and physical health, but that access to such services was patchy."

Peer support in long term conditions
Mental Health Foundation
September 2012

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Long term conditions compendium of information

"This is the third compendium of information on long term conditions (LTCs) which aims to provide the most up to date data together with a range of case study examples of excellence and innovation from across the country."

Long term conditions compendium of information: third edition
Department of Health
May 2012

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Improving the lives of people with long term conditions

"Patients living with Long Term Conditions do not want to be defined by their condition and this report shows that by working in partnership with their GPs, they do not have to be."

Care planning: improving the lives of people with long term conditions
N Mathers, S Roberts, I Hodkinson, B Karet
Royal College of General Practitioners
September 2011

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