Yasmin Ibison, Programme and Partnerships Manager (Employment) at Black Thrive Lambeth, kicks off our new series of guest blogs in response to our #YouOnlyHadToAsk report on what people with multiple conditions say about health inequality.
The Multiple Conditions Guidebook is part of a suite of resources published by the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions. This work showcases 10 examples of how local areas and frontline professionals across health, social care, the VCS, local government and beyond are responding to the challenge of how to provide better care to the 15 million people in England living with multiple long-term conditions.
A blog discussing the role community assets, be that clubs, volunteer groups, or local services, can play in helping people living with multiple conditions to manage their own health and stay well.
This report explores how it feels to live with multiple long-term health conditions and shares learnings from ten in-depth interviews with people living with multiple long-term conditions from a wide range of demographics and locations across England. It showcases their everyday experiences and own perceptions of their quality of life as well as the changes they’d like to see. This research was commissioned by the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions and conducted by Revealing Reality. Also included in the report is a response from the Taskforce which reflects on the ethnographic research and outlines some potential activities for the Taskforce to undertake to address some of the issues surfaced.
This ‘Multimorbidity’ report was commissioned by the Richmond Group to better understand the nature and scale of the challenge of people who are living with more than one long-term condition, how it affects their lives and why the system struggles to respond. It also explores how the Richmond Group of Charities own services and support offers might be adjusted to better respond to the needs of people with multimorbidities. The report summarised the findings of an initial scoping study, identified the evidence gaps and key questions for further consideration and set out plans for addressing the issue of multimorbidity in the longer term.
