There is a pressing need to develop systems to provide care closer to home for older people living with frailty, both to minimise unnecessary urgent care episodes and improve outcomes. Planning services across local systems to meet the needs of this group of vulnerable patients is key to providing better and more resilient NHS care.
Our team of QI practitioners, analysts and clinicians have taken the learning from our previous frailty networks, working with over 170 teams across the country since 2015, and designed a programme to support improvement within a system where it is needed most for frail older people.
The System Wide Frailty Network is designed in line with the tried and tested ‘collaborative improvement’ model, with a number of systems working together to improve services and models of care locally, supported by national clinical and improvement experts and sharing their experiences through national networking events. The first wave of the Network launches in September 2021 and will run for 12 months.
The Network team will deliver a series of live events, masterclasses and webinars that support participating teams in delivering improvements to frailty services across their system and enabling teams to share experiences with one another. Each participating system team will have an allocated ‘QI Associate’ and access to measurement expertise to help plan, deliver and measure change locally, and access to national clinical experts to support the redesign of services.
Across the system we can focus on helping teams make improvement in any of the following areas, focusing upon frailty:
Acute care
Intermediate care
Primary care
Mental health
Care Homes
Ambulance services
Specialised services
Education and training across the system
The programme team will work closely with participating systems to understand the priority areas for improvement and develop a plan to improve these frailty services locally.
If you would like to learn more, please get in touch via the Contact page.