Nuffield Trust 6 September 2018
- The Nuffield Trust has developed a tool to help providers and commissioners of care in England assess the needs of frail older people being cared for in hospital.
- Indicators have been developed for each local authority and NHS acute trust to describe populations, hospital costs and hospital usage for people aged 75 years and over using Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and Office for National Statistics datasets. These are presented alongside HES-based measures of frailty by different types of hospital activity. Additional indicators on patient outcomes (mortality and emergency readmissions) for NHS acute trusts are also inlcuded.
