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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
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues improving acute care for frail older people.
Reflect on national developments and learning, and implement the NHS England FRAIL strategy in practice.
Meet the national CQUIN on frailty in emergency departments and learn from outstanding acute frailty services.
Improve support for people with frailty by developing skills in identifying and diagnosing frailty, and improving emergency admissions response and same-day acute frailty services.
Identify strategies for preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and setting up a virtual frailty ward.
Use the Specialised Clinical Frailty Toolkit to improve practice and address end-of-life care priorities and challenges for people with frailty.
Ensure falls-related frailty is identified and managed, improve prescribing, and reduce polypharmacy.
Self-assess and reflect on your practice.
Supports CPD professional development, providing 5 hours of training for CPD, subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes.
