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This conference focuses on the important issue of transforming care for people with frailty. The event will provide an essential guide to improving the quality of care for people with frailty and supporting them to stay out of hospital including ensuring adherence to the NHS England FRAIL strategy for the development and improvement of acute frailty same day emergency care services and the National CQUIN. The conference will provide updated from proactive integrated frailty services, and frailty improvement programmes to empower you to improve services for people living with frailty.
Older people with frailty are more likely to experience recurrent falls than older people without frailty. Frailty-induced falls are associated with a greater risk of fractures, hospitalisation, and a permanent move to a care home. Frailty assessment and diagnosis can be a gateway to support and services, including support to prevent falls. The conference will highlight how you can work with frail older people to reduce falls and deconditioning.
Redesign of frailty services through the development of neighbourhood health is crucial to meeting increasing demand and improving the quality of life for older people. The conference will update delegates on neighbourhood health and frailty.
“Frailty is a term widely used but often misunderstood. It is a health state associated with low energy, slow walking speed and poor strength, but living with frailty does not mean you are incapable of living a full and independent life.”
Age Concern 2025
“Within hospitals there is much we can do to improve quality and safety of care for older people living with frailty””
Dr Jennifer Burns Past President, British Geriatric Society
“Our 10 Year Health Plan committed to building a Neighbourhood Health Service, and we’re hitting the ground running on delivering it. If we are to get patients cared for faster, on their doorstep and even in their own home, then we need to shift the focus of the NHS from hospitals to the community.”
Wes Streeting Health and Social Care Secretary July 2025
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve care for frail older people
Reflect on national developments and learning
Implement the NHS England FRAIL strategy in practice
Understand the implications of Neighbourhood Health for frailty
Explore the impact of the national ambition to shift non acute frailty care from hospital to the community
Meeting the national CQUIN on identification and management of frailty in emergency departments
Learn from outstanding practice in delivering frailty services
Improve the way you support people with frailty
Develop your skills in identifying and diagnosing frailty
Understand how you can improve the response to emergency admissions and deliver same day acute frailty services
Identify key strategies for delivering integrated services and preventing unnecessary hospital admission
Understand the principles and practicalities of setting up and running a virtual frailty ward
Learn from the delivery of a frailty improvement programme
Reducing deconditioning and improve nutrition and exercise
Explore priorities and challenges in improving end of life care for people with frailty
Ensure frailty presenting as falls is effectively identified and managed
Improve prescribing and reduce polypharmacy
Self-assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
