Hospitals: Patients

(asked on 4th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS patients were triaged under the Frailty Index mechanism in (a) March, (b) April and (c) May 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 25th June 2020

NHS Digital publishes primary care data about the cumulative number of registered patients aged 65 years or over who have had a frailty assessment using the Electronic Frailty Index or any other appropriate assessment tool, up to the end of the reporting period. The data is reported quarterly on a cumulative basis as part of the General Medical Services / Personal Medical Services core contract data collection.

The latest available publication covers the reporting period up to 31 March 2020. This is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/gp-contract-services/2019-20

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