Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides guidance to NHS trusts on establishing one-stop shops for people with multiple medical conditions; and if he will make a statement.
The configuration of services for services for patients with multiple medical conditions is a local matter.
In September 2016, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the best practice guideline, Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management. This evidence-based guidance is designed to support clinicians and commissioners to optimise care for adults with multimorbidity (multiple long-term conditions) by reducing treatment burden (polypharmacy and multiple appointments) and unplanned care. Approaches to reducing multiple appointments may include providing more assessments at a single appointment. The NICE guideline can be found at the following link: