Approaches to Effectively Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions and Multimorbidities
Online Conference 10 November 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
9:00am
Online Registration
9:50am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr Patricia Smith, Senior Lecturer, Professional Health Sciences, University of East London
10:00am
Keynote Address: Making Sense Of The Evidence For Multiple Long-Term Conditions
- Exploring the impact of multiple conditions both on people’s lives and the healthcare service
- Examining the interaction between different conditions – both physical and mental
- Looking at risk factors such as people’s behaviour and socioeconomic status
- Deepening understanding to lead to the development of more effective local strategies
Candace Imison, Associate Director of Evidence and Dissemination, National Institute for Health and Care Research
10:20am
Keynote Address: Opportunities And Challenges For Improving Primary Care For People With Multiple Long Term Conditions
- An increasing number of people consulting in primary care have complex, multiple problems.
- These people value continuity of care and want be treated as individuals, but they experience ‘treatment burden’ from numerous appointments, tests, treatments and recommendations.
- There are numerous barriers to improving care, which will be discussed
- Improvements to care require changes to incentives, staff training, teamwork, IT and the interface between primary and secondary care. But its all possible if we focus on patient’s needs and design our services to meet them.
Professor Chris Salisbury, Professor in Primary Health Care, University of Bristol
10:40am
Providing Technology And Service Pathways To Meet The Needs Of People With Multiple Long Term Problems
- Demographics and future trends in multiple long term conditions (multi-morbidity)
- The needs of this population
- Taking diagnosis and treatment closer to home
- Implications for integrated care systems
Professor Gary A Ford CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
11:00am
Questions And Answers Session
11:20am
Break And Networking
11:50am
Case Study: Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Treatments For People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions
- Using AI to produce computer programmes and tools to help doctors improve the choice of drugs in patients with clusters of multiple long-term conditions
- Understanding how different combinations of long-term conditions and the medicines taken interact over time to worsen or improve a patient’s health
- Exploring how a drug for one disease can make another disease worse or better
- Improving the availability of information to know which drug to prescribe to people with complex multimorbidity
- Grouping people based on their mixes of disease to study the effects of a drug on each disease mix
Andrew Bennett, National Clinical Director, MSK Conditions, NHS England
12:10pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:15pm
Case Study: Implementing Proactive Care Frameworks To Help Primary Care Teams Manage Patients With Cardiovascular And Respiratory Long-Term Conditions
- Developing a Community of Practice approach to share learning within primary care networks
- Adopting a single-condition approach and making the decision to focus on hypertension
- Combining the long-term condition programme into a proactive care approach
- Taking a system-centred approach to gradually integrate all the different elements into the NCL local approach
Professor Claire Fuller, CEO, Surrey Heartlands ICS
12:35pm
Complex Lives - Complex Medicine – Investigating Integrative Medicine And Its Role In Prevention And Management Of Long-Term Health Conditions
- Exploring the Integrative Medicine model, its principles of health and wellness and core concepts of resilience, balance and vitality
- How Integrative Medicine can offer something to patients, individual healthcare practitioners AND the healthcare system in these challenging times
- Moving on from a healthcare system focused on illness and heroic intervention, driven by technology and pharmaceuticals to one that prioritises well-ness, whole-person health, diversity, choice and empowerment
- How stress and trauma are often at the root of disease and why we need a trauma-informed model of care
Dr Elizabeth Thompson, Founder, CEO & Holistic Doctor, National Centre for Integrative Medicine
12:55pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Keynote Address: The Role Of Nutrition In Multimorbidity And Chronic Conditions
- Examining the evidence for the role of nutrition, dietary patterns and diet quality and the risk of multimorbidity/chronic disease
- Outlining age-related changes that impact nutritional needs
- Understanding the overlap between frailty, sarcopenia and malnutrition and approaches to support management
- Discuss earlier identification and prevention strategies to promote good nutrition, reduce risk and improve the management of long-term conditions
Professor Jane Murphy, Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University
2:00pm
Case Study: Helping People With Long-term Conditions Get More Physically Active
- Setting the scene for why tackling the inequalities that exist for people living with long-term health conditions and physical activity is a priority for all
- Highlighting the changes the sport, physical activity and health sectors can make together
- How we are striving to create a positive physical activity experience for people living with long-term health conditions
- Introducing the development of the 5Is to identify what makes a positive physical activity experience for those with long-term health conditions
Sarah Worbey, National Partnerships Lead, Sport England
2:20pm
Case Study: Assessing The Long-Term Health Effects Of Covid-19 As A Potentially Long-Term And Life-Changing Disease
- Examining the evidence that large numbers of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 develop symptoms that can last for months or even years
- Understanding the varying estimates of the prevalence long Covid and its symptoms
- Looking at the theories for the underlying cause of long Covid
- Harnessing the nurse’s role in supporting people long Covid in the absence of potential treatments
Dr Joanna Isobel House, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy, Bristol University
2:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:00pm
Chair’s Summary And Close
Dr Patricia Smith, Senior Lecturer, Professional Health Sciences, University of East London