Improving care for older people
Advances in health care have helped people to live longer than ever before which creates new challenges for the NHS.
Older people
Ageing well and supporting people living with frailty
Access information and support for practitioners on supporting routine frailty identification and frailty through the GP Contract 2017/2018.
Healthy ageing and caring
We are working to support older people to look after their own health, particularly people with multiple long term conditions, including frailty.
Working together to improve public health and wellbeing
Common underlying risk factors increase demands on services. By taking a whole system approach to interventions, we can make every contact count.
Latest news and blogs
Helping people to age well in the NHS Long Term Plan: a big challenge and an exciting opportunity
The NHS is working on a plan setting out our ambitions for improvement over the next decade, and how we will meet them over the five years of the recently announced funding settlement. Over the last few weeks, initial conversations have been taking place internally and externally to establish the scope of the plan, and […]