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This timely conference focuses on the important issue of transforming acute 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 the implementation of the February 2024 NHS England FRAIL strategy for the development and improvement of acute frailty same day emergency care services and the National CQUIN. Redesign of acute frailty services is crucial to meeting increasing demand and improving the quality of life for older people.
“A person who is defined as frail is at high risk of adverse outcomes such as falls, immobility, delirium, incontinence, side effects of medication – and admission to hospital or the need for long-term care. People with frailty can be vulnerable to dramatic and sudden changes in their health due to, for example, infection, medication change or a new environment.”
NHS England 13th February 2024
“Around 10% of people aged over 65 live with frailty. This figure rises to between 25% and a 50% for those aged over 85. It’s important that people living with frailty have access to proactive, joined-up care to maximise health and wellbeing and prevent problems arising in the first place. Equally important is access to rapid, specialist services in the event of a health crisis.”
Age UK
“Acute frailty services routinely and systematically assess frailty in older people who present acutely to urgent and emergency care (UEC) services, with the aim of doing this within 30 minutes of a person’s arrival… This will mean more older people living with frailty can be safely discharged on the same day they arrive, avoiding admission overnight.”
NHS England 13th February 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve acute care for frail older people
Reflect on national developments and learning
Implement the NHS England FRAIL strategy in practice
Meeting the national CQUIN on identification and management of frailty in emergency departments
Learn from outstanding practice in delivering acute 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 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 in acute care
Understand how you can use the Specialised Clinical Frailty Toolkit to improve practice
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
