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Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions

The Health Foundation, November 2018
This report finds that approximately 14.2 million people have two or more conditions, which represents nearly a quarter of all adults living in England. It argues that resourcing primary care so GPs and nurses have the time to work together with patients to manage their conditions, and ensuring that hospital care has more coordination between specialties is key to supporting patients with multiple health conditions.
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Supporting organisations engaging with locums and doctors in short-term placements: A practical guide for healthcare providers, locum agencies and revalidation management services

NHS England, October 2018
This guidance is for any individual or organisation engaging with locum and short-term placement doctors, who often do not have easy access to to systems or structures in place to support their CPD, appraisal, revalidation and governance. This guidance highlights ways they may be supported to provide safe provision of healthcare as a valuable part of the workforce.
Click here to view the full report.

Supporting locums and doctors in short-term placements: A practical guide for doctors in these roles

NHS England, October 2018
This guidance is for locum and short-term placement doctors, who often do not have easy access to systems or structures in place to support their CPD, appraisal, revalidation and governance. This guidance highlights ways they may be supported to provide safe provision of healthcare as a valuable part of the workforce.
Click here to view the full report.

"Just one thing after another": living with multiple conditions

Richmond Group of Charities, October 2018
This report shares learnings from ten in-depth interviews with people living with multiple long-term conditions from a wide range of demographics and locations across England. It showcases their everyday experiences and their own perceptions of their quality of life as well as the changes they’d like to see.
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Priced out: home ownership and public service workers

Unison, September 2018
Unison research considering the cases of an NHS cleaner, teaching assistant, librarian, nurse and police community support officer and their ability to afford  to buy their own homes.  It finds that saving money for a down payment on a property would take decades – or more than a century for public sector staff in some parts of London.
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