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Recommendati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

1. The <str<strong>on</strong>g>Health</str<strong>on</strong>g> and Wellbeing Board should instigate a review <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> how outcomes related<br />

to drug and alcohol misuse (including liver disease) can be improved. There should<br />

be a particular focus <strong>on</strong> the impact <strong>on</strong> children and families.<br />

2. A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment priority should be to undertake a health, social<br />

care and ec<strong>on</strong>omic needs assessment <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> minority ethnic groups, with particular<br />

reference to their disproporti<strong>on</strong>ate representati<strong>on</strong> am<strong>on</strong>g people with l<strong>on</strong>g-term<br />

c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />

3. Local commissi<strong>on</strong>ers should support an audit <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> admissi<strong>on</strong>s to acute and instituti<strong>on</strong>al<br />

care <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> people with l<strong>on</strong>g-term c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s so, through effective and early interventi<strong>on</strong>s,<br />

care can be managed closer to home.<br />

4. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Public</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Health</str<strong>on</strong>g> will lead the development <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a surveillance system to assess the impact<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> changes to the welfare system <strong>on</strong> the most vulnerable to inform policy makers and<br />

prevent poor health and social care outcomes.<br />

5. Local commissi<strong>on</strong>ers will establish an integrated system for the management <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> l<strong>on</strong>gterm<br />

c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s based <strong>on</strong> the best available evidence.<br />

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