Summary: 
Too much of healthcare is designed around the needs and interests of the system, rather than our patients. Multimorbidity is seen as a challenge, rather than the norm. It’s time for a rethink. 

Brief Overview:

• Why we need to understand and focus on multimorbidity
• Why healthcare has evolved the way it has
• How this impacts on real patients, and what we can do about it 

Learning outcomes:

• How and why we misunderstand guidelines 
• How we can change our focus 
• Those who are interested in Personalised Care will feel supported and reassured 
• In a time of healthcare challenge and low morale, there is a different potential future 

Brief Overview:

This session will bring to life the realities of living with a chronic condition; dealing with multiple specialisms; and the difference personalised care can make. 

Learning Outcomes:

• You’ll hear examples of the simple behaviours and attitudes that really make a difference to patients living with chronic conditions.
• You’ll see how seeing the patient as a whole, rather than just a disease makes such a difference, and how shared decision making can lead to patients who feel empowered and engaged.

empowered and engaged.

Brief Overview:

• Presents our findings from people living with multiple long-term conditions – challenges and solutions.
• Outlines the implications for healthcare professionals re: delivering personalised care and MDT working.
• Considers how growing multimorbidity can be reflected in the new government’s Ten Year Health Plan.

Learning Outcomes:

• Hear the findings from the Richmond Group’s multi-year Taskforce for Multiple Conditions – the main challenges and solutions from a patient perspective.
• Increase awareness of how best to meet the needs of patients with multimorbidity
• Learn about innovative place-based models delivering personalised care.

Summary: 
People with multiple long term conditions (MLTCs) tend to have poorer quality of life and a higher risk of early death compared to people with fewer conditions. Some studies suggest that people from minoritised ethnic groups have a much higher risk of developing MLTCs and do so at an earlier age than white people. There are also studies that have found ethnic differences in how much a patient uses health services and the quality of care they receive, however, the evidence is unclear.

Brief Overview:

We conducted a study to investigate whether there are ethnic  

inequalities in healthcare use and care quality among people with MLTCs and how these inequalities can be addressed. We wanted to produce evidence that can be used to improve care for people with MLTCs from minoritised ethnic groups 

Summary: 
We will present examples of some of the creative approaches we have used to work collaboratively with patient and public involvement and engagement members to 1. understand the complex interplay between symptoms of breathlessness and poor balance 2. to design a novel Intervention (walking football) for people with breathlessness and 3. to disseminate findings in an accessible way.

Brief Overview:

• Aim: To offer examples of how to involve PPIE members in innovative and creative ways which are fun, inclusive and informative.
• Key themes: PPIE; creative arts; co-design
• Importance: Almost all funding bodies recommend PPIE be undertaken. Ensuring this is done in an inclusive and meaningful way helps to ensure that, not only is research funding awarded to areas of need, but that the findings gleaned are impactful.

Learning outcomes:

• Learn – a range of creative and innovative approaches to PPIE
• Improve – a more inclusive approach to PPIE will ensure more voices are heard, improving the relevance, scope and potential reach of research and its implementation into clinical practice.
• Benefit -the benefits of contributing as PPIE members are multifaceted (psychological, social). Research which does involve PPIE members in a meaningful way is more impactful, improving care and benefiting patients.

Summary:
This talk will outline the challenge of delivering high-quality, person-centred care in hospitals for people living with MLTC, and identify where the current system is failing to deliver. I will then outline how research from the ADMISSION research collaborative is seeking to better understand how people with MLTC move through hospital systems using routine data, interviews with people living with MLTC, and interviews with clinicians caring for people with MLTC in hospitals. Finally, I will outline possible alternative models of care that could be built upon to improve on our current systems. 

Brief Overview:
To showcase how research is helping to address the challenge of delivering high-quality, person-centred care for people living with MLTC admitted to hospital 

Key themes: 

• Tension between specialist care of individual conditions vs integrative care of multiple conditions 
• Lack of information on how people with MLTC admitted to hospital are cared for 
• Potential models of care that might unlock this challenge

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the challenges of our current model of hospital care for people with MLTC 
• Understand how research from the ADMISSION collaborative is helping to understand and address these challenges 
• Consider alternative models and exemplars of good care which could be built on in practice 

Poster presentations from:

Dr Laura Charlesworth – Enabling coping in people living with severe mental illness and cancer: the importance of personalised care.

Sean Paul Carroll – 

Alexander Phillips – Evaluation of a novel Functional Neurological Disorder(FND) Care Advisor service.

Julie Taylor – Personalised Care: A Cultural Shift to Improve Sustainability of Podiatry Services

Lindsay Oliver – Using the Year of Care Approach to Personalised Care and Support Planning to Deliver Proactive Care in North Cumbria.

Summary
Outlining the role of health psychology and taking a bio-psychosical approach to MM and new models of care

Brief Overview:

The emergence of patient leadership and the role of a Patient (Lived Experience) Director are revolutions in the NHS – the advent of such concepts and roles means that a new career pathway can be envisaged, one which legitimises the development of an experiential workforce that can help the NHS focus on what truly matters to people.

Learning Outcomes:

People will learn about:

• The emergence of patient leadership and critique of the engagement industry
• The role of a Patient Director – what it is and why it’s needed (and challenges in embedding such a role)
• How patients might form a new experiential workforce
• People will be able therefore to help provide opportunities and support for such a new workforce.