Using Real World Data to identify and plan interventions to reduce polypharmacy and transform prescribing in Multiple Long-Term Conditions.
Around one in four adults in England, which equates to more than fourteen million people, are now living with two or more health conditions. People with multiple conditions have poorer quality of life and a higher mortality risk. Some combinations are associated with especially poor outcomes; people with severe mental illness live 10 to 20 years less than the general population. People’s problems do not fit neatly into the way the current service is configured. This is particularly an issue in relation to prescribing, where there is frequently little integration across co-existing diseases and polypharmacy can easily result. The intelligent use of data and AI could provide solutions to this growing problem in the NHS.
