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.
With the NHS approaching its 70th birthday and the Government preparing a long-term plan for the service in England, a broad range of leaders in charities and voice organisations have came to offer our views on what should happen next to improve health and care – within the NHS and beyond.
This report called on the Government to deliver an ambitious funding package that sets the NHS, social care system and public health on the right path for the future together.
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.
This publication was from our Doing the Right Thing programme, an approach to building meaningful collaboration between the voluntary sector and public bodies. Researched and authored by New Philanthropy Capital for the Richmond Group of Charities, this report captures learning from the initial stages of our collaborative work in Somerset, including success factors for collaboration, consideration of collaboration challenges, and reflections for local and national decision-makers beyond Somerset. Tapping the Potential was generously funded by Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Charity and the Health Foundation.
We gathered real life case studies from Richmond Group member charities to show why data is so critical for good healthcare and the tangible benefits which can be gained from its use. The report highlights the significant barriers to good data – including technological barriers, uncertainty around information governance, and a lack of public trust – and called on everyone responsible for healthcare data across the health and care system to help realise the true potential of this invaluable resource.
In summer 2016, working in collaboration with the British Red Cross and Royal Voluntary Service, we commissioned The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust to undertake a series of interviews with individuals with experience of using social care services. The aim of this work was to complement and add value to a wider piece of research being undertaken by The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust to examine the future sustainability of the social care system, Social Care for Older People: Home Truths.
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.
