{"id":37509,"date":"2018-04-19T01:01:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/19\/patients-with-multiple-conditions-not-getting-best-possible-care-say-experts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-19T01:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:01:37","slug":"patients-with-multiple-conditions-not-getting-best-possible-care-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37509","title":{"rendered":"Patients with multiple conditions not getting best possible care, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often patients are treated by a raft of different specialists when they should be treated more holisticallyMillions of people in the UK and many more across the world are suffering from multiple long-term illnesses and may not be getting the best possible treatment from health services that focus on one disease at a time, say experts.A team from the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK says this is a growing problem and a huge potential burden on the NHS and other health services. \u201cClusters\u201d of diseases are becoming more common, they say, such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of the lungs. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/apr\/19\/patients-with-multiple-conditions-not-getting-best-possible-care-say-experts\" target=\"_blank\">Patients with multiple conditions not getting best possible care, say experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often patients are treated by a raft of different specialists when they should be treated more holisticallyMillions of people in the UK and many more across the world are suffering from multiple long-term illnesses and may not be getting the best possible treatment from health services that focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}