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Working for patients: How improving the experience of patients with long-term conditions can deliver the Government’s ten year health plan

The Government has run an extensive engagement exercise gathering feedback across these groups and many others. This research argues that understanding the experience of people with LTCs needs to be at the heart of the Government’s plan.

Future Health and National Voices have worked in partnership on this research
project.

The research argues that understanding the experience of people with LTCs needs
to be at the heart of the Government’s plan. People with LTCs account for 70% of GP
appointments and 50% of hospital activity.

The lack of prioritisation of patients with LTCs, which worsened during the COVID-19
pandemic and after, coupled with fragmented data collection methods and other
structural challenges means the current system is not set-up for success.

This paper proposes a new nationally and locally blended policy model, based on
the Core20PLUS5 health inequalities programme, to help embed the experience of
patients with LTCs at the heart of delivering and monitoring the Government’s three
policy shifts.

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