House of Commons Health Select Committee, 3 July 2014
- Report on a major inquiry into managing the care of people with long-term conditions.
- Findings include:
- Greater integration within the NHS itself is needed to coordinate treatments, streamline care and ensure that patients with complex requirements are not passed from pillar to post.
- The Committee strongly supports the development of individual care planning for people with long-term conditions, based on the principles successfully demonstrated in the NHS House of Care programme.
- The Committee looked at the prevailing view that services to treat long-term conditions should be moved out of hospitals and into primary and community care, and found that while such changes might lead to more effective care, the case for economic benefits to the NHS is not yet proven.
- System incentives [across primary and community care] need a thorough revision to give proper support for care planning approaches
- Effective management of long-term conditions is not just an issue for the health and care system: it requires collaboration with other government providers, such as housing and transport services, to ensure that people with LTCs are properly supported.
