North East and Yorkshire

Region overview

The North East and Yorkshire region covers the area including:

  • Cumbria and the North East
  • West Yorkshire and Harrogate
  • Humber, Coast and Vale
  • South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

Meet North East and Yorkshire BGS members

  • BGS members can join our members directory allowing them to connect with other healthcare professionals in their region.
     
  • The forum is free to access for all health professionals with a BGS web account. You can access it via the BGS app. Use the forum to discuss older people's healthcare by theme (e.g. dementia) or topic (e.g. workforce). The forum also allows you to ask questions, or help provide answers to other professionals. It is a forum where health professionals can ask seek help, offer support to others or share their successes. Find out more on the forum information page.

Get involved

There are multiple ways to get involved with your BGS region.

  • Submit content for your regional e-bulletin. The BGS sends a tailored quarterly e-bulletin to each of its six England regions. As the region areas are so vast, you can provide valuable support by sharing updates on what’s happening in your own hospital or Trust. Please email your Co-Chairs with updates.
     
  • Help to plan our online events and webinars. By joining the planning committee, you will have the opportunity to help create programme content, source speakers and support on the day. This will help to enable colleagues to improve the delivery of high-quality healthcare to older people. Please email your region Co-Chairs to express your interest.

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2026 Yorkshire and North East Region Meeting

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2026 Yorkshire and North East Region

Join us for a virtual meeting on rehabilitation and deconditioning, hosted by our Yorkshire and North East region. You do not have to be based in the region to attend.
2026 Yorkshire and North East Meeting

North East and Yorkshire Officers

North East and Yorkshire June 2026 update

Our Region Co-Chairs share an update every quarter, highlighting key developments, successes, and priorities from across their region.

Yorkshire

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Completed a 14-week Frailty SDEC pilot with 386 attendances and a 70% same-day discharge rate, avoiding 269 admissions.
  • Achieved significant improvements in patient flow, including reductions in ED lodging, decision-to-admit delays (61%), and corridor time (91%).
  • Met or exceeded all measurable NHS England Frailty SDEC benchmarks.
  • Working with system partners (Frailty Excellence Collaborative, City Healthcare Partnership CIC and Hull Local Authority) to deliver frailty-attuned discharge pathways, including virtual ward care combined with enhanced community support (Bee @ Home, CHCP) and a frailty-attuned discharge to assess model 

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

  • Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) service launched at Scunthorpe General Hospital as a PDSA pilot, with plans for expansion to Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital when there is capacity
  • Ongoing work with GIRFT team to optimise ward flow and strengthen board rounds.
  • Workforce transition underway with recruitment of additional senior clinicians following retirement of long-serving colleagues.
  • Successful SAS recruitment strategy helping address consultant workforce challenges and strengthen service leadership.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

  • Opened a dedicated Acute Frailty Admission Unit and Hospital at Home virtual ward over the past two years.
  • Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response teams have integrated to strengthen step-up care pathways and support a Home First approach.
  • Orthogeriatric service ranked third nationally for Best Practice Tariff performance.
  • Developing plans for a future POPS service, with the trust receiving a visit from BGS President Professor Jugdeep to receive input on how to progress this.
  • Launched the Harrogate End of Life Planning Service (HELLPS). Developed through coordination between the Palliative and Geriatric Medicine departments this service provides advance care planning in the community, supporting patient choice while reducing hospital admissions.
  • Continuing to respond to increasing demand from a growing older population, with clear future priorities including expansion of seven-day frailty services and development of a sustainable Frailty SDEC model.

North East

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

  • Developing a new Frailty Assessment Unit (FAU)/Frailty SDEC model aligned with Hospital at Home services, with plans for acute and community-based quality improvement initiatives to support this.
  • Trialling the use of Brain Injury Peptides in frail patients presenting with head injury.

Sunderland and South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

  • Continuing involvement in the POPS-SUp research trial focused on older people undergoing surgery.
  • Hosted a visit from national research leaders, including chief investigator and BGS President Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, recognising the team's contribution to perioperative care research

https://www.stsft.nhs.uk/latest-news/our-latest-stories/research-leaders-make-visit-team-leading-trial-looking-older-people-and-operations

Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust

  • Introduced a ‘Call Before Convey’ model with embedded geriatrician support, enabling care home residents to receive crisis care closer to home and reducing avoidable ED attendances.
  • Outpatient transformation programme established a single point of access through Advice and Refer, improving integration with community services, shortening pathways and reducing waiting times.
  • Preparing to launch work on systematic identification of severe frailty and anticipatory care planning.

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Ongoing development of the Frailty Front of House service supporting patients within ED and Acute Services.
  • Continued expansion of the frailty virtual ward, enabling more patients to be discharged home with community support.
  • Within the last month introduced delivery of IV antibiotics and subcutaneous fluids via the frailty virtual ward in selected cases.
  • ‘Call Before Convey’ referrals from NEAS to the frailty virtual ward has contributed to reductions in unnecessary hospital admissions among frail older adults.

There is limited news to report from the North East region at present, however I am currently working on developing a stronger network of contacts across the local trusts. The aim is to establish clearer lines of communication so that we can receive more regular updates and share developments across services in the region.

One positive development is taking place at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, where a new Urology POPS (Perioperative care of Older People undergoing Surgery) clinic has recently been introduced as part of a trial. Early feedback suggests that the clinic is performing very well and is already demonstrating benefits in supporting older surgical patients.

The trial is scheduled to run for six months. If the outcomes continue to be positive, there is potential for the model to be expanded beyond urology and rolled out across other surgical specialties within the trust.

It will be useful to monitor the progress of this initiative over the coming months, as it could provide a strong example of how POPS services can be integrated more widely to improve perioperative care for older patients. 

Dr Elizabeth Clark