The scheme, run by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) ...

Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a study suggests. Frail people are more likely to stay longer in hospital after an ...

As the population ages in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, with more than 118,000 people aged 65+ today and numbers expected to rise to 162,000 by 2035, NHS bosses say it’s more important than ever to ...

A series of read codes for generating an electronic frailty score have been released by the NHS information centre, in a move that NHS England leaders said will help GPs to formally diagnose the ...

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Frail people are more likely to stay longer in hospital after an operation (PA) Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a ...