Journal article
15/07/2019Study to determine long-term outcomes of older people discharged from hospital following short (
Journal article
25/04/2019Comprehensive geriatric assessment improves outcomes for frail older people at risk in acute hospitals, but toolkits aimed at enhancing its delivery by non-specialists require prolonged geriatrician support.
Report
04/10/2018 Louella Vaughan Nigel Edwards Candace Imison Ben CollinsSmaller hospitals are struggling with workforce shortages, spiralling costs and increasingly complex models of care for acutely ill patients. This major new report outlines a set of radical new approaches for running acute medical services in these institutions and suggests we should avoid assuming...
Press release
04/10/2018Encouraging groups of clinicians to pool their capacity at the hospital ‘front door’ could help solve chronic workforce shortages and spiralling costs.
Summary
13/09/2018 Candace Imison Louella VaughanThis profile of smaller hospitals in England finds trusts struggling to recruit and retain acute medical staff. Services across the country are configured in a wide variety of ways, with little evidence of an 'ideal' model for acute medical care emerging from our research.
Research
06/09/2018 Dr Elizabeth Fisher Eilís Keeble Joshua KraindlerThe 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.