Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's Major Conditions Strategy will include the impact of multimorbidity.

The Major Conditions Strategy will support health and care services to diagnose individuals earlier as well as helping them to manage their conditions better and improving the overall co-ordination of their treatment and care. This will include a focus on multi-morbidity.

We will look at the health of people at all stages of life from prevention through to living well with one or more major conditions. We will also include a focus on geographical and other differences in health that contribute to variations in health outcomes.