31 March 2016 - NICE has issued draft guidance to help optimise care for people with 2 or more long-term health conditions – known as multimorbidity.

The draft guideline, which is open for consultation, sets out how to offer a tailored approach for people with multiple long-term conditions and how to put them at the heart of the decisions about their care.

To reduce treatment burden and minimise unwanted side effects from taking multiple medicines, this draft guideline recommends clinicians do the following:

• Stop treatment if it is considered to be of limited benefit
• Identify medicines with a higher risk of unwanted side effects
• Offer alternative treatment (non-pharmacological) to some medicines
• Consider making alternative arrangements to make the best use of appointments a person has to attend, so that they don’t have to prioritise conflicting appointments for different conditions

For more details, go to: https://www.nice.org.uk/news/press-and-media/nice-tackles-complex-health-issues-for-people-with-multimorbidity