This report, published in respsonse to the NHS's 5 Five Year Forward View, made the case that leading health and care charities have the right tools and expertise to help make it a reality.
To help us understand attitudes and behaviours towards physical activity for people with multiple or wide ranging conditions, we commissioned think tank and research agency Britain Thinks to speak to people from across England. To get a different viewpoint they also spoke to carers, families and friends. Through the research they probed the barriers preventing people with long term conditions from being active and tested the impact of some potential messages aimed at encouraging people to move more.
In January 2015, we commissioned an in-depth research project to try to understand the future trends for the most prevalent long-term health conditions in the UK, specifically how many people are either dying early from these conditions, or living with continued disability and poor health. We also wanted to identify interventions that could prevent or reduce the incidence of these long‑term conditions that could be applied to the whole UK population, focusing on major lifestyle risks which contribute to those conditions. The Living Longer, Living Well overview report summarises the results of this study, which used the ‘25 by 25’ goals from the World Health Organization (WHO) as a benchmark against which to measure UK trends.
This report brought together the data we all individually held about how our beneficiaries, the 15 million people in England with long term conditions, experienced their use of health and care services. This unique evidence highlighted some worrying gaps in long-term conditions care which led to many preventable problems.
This report outlined our ambition relating to the prevention agenda, setting out what we believe is required from leaders across government and the health and social care system in order to achieve the World Health Organisation’s 25 by25 targets.
