“Over the past 30 years we’ve moved from marked premature mortality from cardiovascular disease to increasing longevity with the development of multiple long term conditions. In the next 10 years I think that we’ll need a much greater focus on how we deliver care more effectively for those people with multiple long term conditions, not just a single condition such as diabetes or hypertension or heart disease.
“Another priority is how we can better tackle young onset type 2 diabetes—a relatively recent phenomenon—both in terms of prevention and in achieving possible remission. We’ve been very successful in focusing on the three treatment targets for diabetes: HbA1c [glucose control], blood pressure, and …