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“The proportion of healthcare resources used by people living with frailty is increasing significantly.”
NHS England 6th February 2025
This timely 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. Redesign of frailty services is crucial to meeting increasing demand and improving the quality of life for older people. 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.
“Frailty is one of the most challenging consequences of population ageing. Frailty develops as a consequence of age-related decline in multiple body systems, which results in vulnerability to sudden health status changes triggered by minor stress or events, such as an infection or a fall at home. Between a quarter and half of older people are estimated to be frail. However, frailty is a gradual state and many younger people can also be considered to be in the early stages of frailty. As healthcare professionals, it is our role to support people living with frailty to maintain their health for as long as possible. We know that frail older people tend to have a longer length of stay, which can lead to complications and worse health outcomes, with an increase in their long-term care needs. So, for their wellbeing, we need to minimise this as much as possible.”
NHS England
“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
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
Explore the impact of the national ambition to shift non acute frailty care from hospital to the community: the role of neighbourhood health
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
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
