About Focus on Frailty

Phase one of Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Focus on Frailty programme brought together six integrated health and social care teams from across Scotland. It ran from May 2023 to December 2024. Each team received flexible and responsive support from Healthcare Improvement Scotland to implement improvements to primary, community and acute services accessed by people aged 65 and over who were living with frailty.

 

Health and social care teams

  • South Ayrshire HSCP and NHS Ayrshire and Arran
  • Moray HSCP and NHS Grampian
  • NHS Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire HSCP
  • Perth and Kinross HSCP and NHS Tayside
  • Glasgow Royal Infirmary, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  • NHS Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfries and Galloway HSCP

 

Resources to support the Focus on Frailty programme 

The following resources were developed to support teams during the improvement programme:

  • Frailty change package: This change package was designed to support teams to improve the experience of access to person centred, coordinated health and social care, for people living with or at the risk of frailty.
  • Focus on Frailty measurement framework: This measurement framework sets out the data that participating teams were required to submit as part of the Focus on Frailty programme.
  • Frailty resources: View a range of tools, resources, and case studies that can be used to help improve outcomes for people living with frailty.
  • 90 day learning cycle on frailty: This outlines the key components of an integrated frailty system.
  • Essentials of Safe Care: The Essentials of Safe Care is a practical package of evidence-based guidance and support that helps Scotland’s health and social care system to deliver safe care.