Presentation slides: Frailty and Urgent Care 2019

Graham is the Clinical Lead for Older People and Frailty with Healthcare Improvement Scotland. He is a geriatrician working in NHS Lanarkshire where he has worked for over 10 years. He has had clinical experience in Acute and Community care. He has ongoing research in the organisation of services for older people and Hospital at Home in particular.

Dr Rachael Morris-Smith is Frailty Service clinical lead at Weston General Hospital, Weston-Super-Mare. She has designed and established an acute frailty team known as GEMS (Geriatric Emergency Medicine Service) providing care to older patients living with frailty as soon as they arrive into hospital either in the Emergency Department or the new GEMS Unit. She is the Acute Hospital representative to the CCG established integrated frailty steering group, working with community partners to design a collaborative frailty pathway. Her interests are in acute geriatric medicine, silver trauma, maintaining independence and quality of life for those she and her team cares for.

Dr Cindy Chu is a consultant geriatrician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with a special interest in community geriatrics. She is one of the geriatricians within the frailty unit (Older Persons Assessment Unit) and also contribute to sessions in ambulatory care (Older Persons Rapid Assessment / Ambulatory Care). Her role focuses on admission avoidance and anticipatory clinical planning in care home residents and severely frail housebound patients. Her close links with various community teams and GP practices provides an interface between secondary care and the community.

Thomas Edwards is a Clinical Lead Therapist at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, for the Emergency Department and Frailty therapy teams. He has worked as an Occupational Therapist within the Emergency & Acute setting throughout his career and is an active member of the Society for Acute Medicine.