The multiple conditions guidebook – one year on

Author(s)

TASKFORCE ON MULTIPLE CONDITIONS

Publisher(s):

Richmond Group of Charities

Publication year:

2020

This report revisits seven of the case studies featured in The Multiple Conditions Guidebook to find out how things are progressing in the year since their original publication. Conversations detailing the impact of Covid-19 on people with multiple conditions, and the practitioners and services supporting them, are set out in this report with case study updates from the Black Country (employment support), British Lung Foundation (peer support groups), Cornwall (self-management), Gateshead (GP health reviews), Luton (specialist exercise trainers), Southwark (social prescribing) and Yorkshire (medication reviews). Across all the case studies revisited the Taskforce heard how: there is fear and anxiety from the increased risk to life from the virus for people with pre-existing health conditions and for some a sense that these health conditions mean their lives are less valuable in the face of Covid-19; the restrictions in place to keep people safe mean that people’s health conditions are, more than ever, affecting their ability to go about their life as normal; the disruption to the health and care services that many rely on to keep well not only causes stress and worry but also a deterioration in people’s health. (Edited publisher abstract)