Community Health and Fitness No 5.4 - CCG - Priority No 4 Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

The King's Fund Trust report gives ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) as the fourth priority for the Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Looking after those with ASCCs include patients with:

• angina
• asthma;
• diabetes;
• epilepsy; and,
• hypertension.

Creating and maintaining the priority should result in fewer hospital admissions, longer life expectancy, and better patient experience.

The Report picks out a number of elements for active disease management which I interpret as including:

• telephone health coaching on life-style management and/or change;
• for complex long-term conditions, active case management; 
• urgent access to care when required;
• disease management and self-management support.

I feel that I need to look at this priority more closely - using perhaps the several web-links provided by the Report