Response to the Welsh Parliament Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into supporting people with chronic conditions: prevention of burdensome multiple long-term conditions among people of working age

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Our submission to the Welsh Parliament Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into supporting people with chronic conditions particularly covers the following broad areas - Multiple conditions (The ability of NHS and social care providers to respond to individuals with multimorbidity) and Prevention and lifestyle (Action to improve prevention and early intervention). We provide evidence and recommendations in relation to the prevention of burdensome multiple long-term conditions among people of working age. This issue is of great importance because early onset multiple long-term conditions are common, increasing and significantly impact people’s quality of life and ability to work. In turn this impacts the economy, placing enormous pressure on health and care systems and impacting unequally across society. We recommend that the Committee focus its attention on finding public health approaches to prevent burdensome multiple long-term conditions The MELD-B study aims to increase understanding of the most effective ways to do this and, therefore, can support the Committee’s future work in this area.

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ORCID for Simon Fraser: orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-4406

ORCID for Nisreen Alwan: orcid.org/0000-0002-4134-8463

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