Multimorbidity deserves its makeover

No one fundraises for multimorbidity. It lacks the public profile and army of professional and patient advocates who lobby for cancer and common single disease conditions. Nor does it get much attention from siloed research units, or guideline developers. Mention multiple concerns related to different long term conditions and you risk seeing your doctor’s eyes glaze over.This is cold comfort for the vast and growing proportion of people who live with multimorbidity, defined as two or more long term conditions.1 Innovative large scale strategies to tackle the physical, mental, and financial burden of multimorbidity, and reduce its wide socio economic impact are thin on the ground, so the announcement of NHS England’s new “major conditions” strategy is welcome.2Opinion on its merits is divided. The cancer community has issued a thundering warning of the danger to patients of “subsuming England’s long term plan for cancer into a generic chronic disease strategy.”3…
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