Long Term Conditions (LTC)

For those with long term conditions it is important to ensure that we not only add years to life, but add life to those years. Looking across the specialties NHS Improvement works with we have identified four key areas across the pathway where patients and carers want improvements:

- Stabilising the condition to get patients back to living their lives
- Supporting patients to live their lives through monitoring and review
- Timely intervention to the appropriate service when things go wrong
- Providing choice and support towards the end of life

Sharing the knowledge to improve the future

Can you help improve the lives of people with long term conditions?

NHS Improvement is currently under going a national scoping exercise collecting examples of best practice in the delivery of healthcare services for people with a long term condition (LTC). If you are a health care professional working in the field of LTC or someone who has a long term condition then we want to hear your story ‘good or bad’.
Access the LTC case study template

Please complete a short online survey on your views and experiences on the delivery of healthcare services for LTC.

New publication

Taking a pathway approach to care delivery and focusing in these four key areas NHS Improvement have highlighted specific specialty approaches in the new Long term conditions publication. These examples and others that can be found within the individual speciality areas NHS Improvement currently works in, however many of these improvements have wider applicability regardless of the disease or for patients with one or more conditions.

There is also the additional challenge in managing long term conditions of meeting patient needs seven days a week rather than the five day service widely provided across the country. Current five day services can results in delays to treatment and a flurry of activity and decision making on a Monday morning. Further information on seven day working can be found at: www.improvement.nhs.uk/7dayworking