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c/o Reuters |
Dear Colleagues,
The Royal College of Nursing Older People's Forum is hosting an online webinar, “Frailty & Falls – A holistic approach to safer mobility and reablement,” on 12th November 2025, 12:30–14:00.
This webinar explores frailty, ageing, and falls from a multidisciplinary perspective, with speakers from occupational therapy, older-people nursing, and orthopaedic care. It’s a great opportunity to update knowledge and share good practice in fall prevention and reablement.
You can find full details and register here:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/frailty-and-falls
Kind regards,
Steph Craig
RCN OPF Chair
mental DISABILITY
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| social DISABILITY |
POLITICAL disability^ |
^The Government are deploying AI to figure out:
"For the first time ever, the adult social care sector has come together, led by Skills for Care, to develop the Workforce Strategy it needs. Adult social care needs a workforce strategy to ensure we have enough of the right people with the right skills to provide the best possible care and support for the people who draw on it.
Development of this vital Strategy has been truly collaborative and it could not have been developed without the expertise, time and commitment of many stakeholders."
Job satisfaction Personalisation - Belongings Motivation Attitudes, Opportunities, Incentives Access to Training
| Activities, Reablement Arts, Dance, Music Dental and other services Systems view - Demographics Collaboration / Liaison |
Social Care: At home & residential care Job status Local community, schools Funding of Social Care Integrated & Person-centred Care | Workforce strategy Pay - terms and conditions Government policy Workforce recruitment & retention: National - International |
In March 2023, we published Joining the dots: A blueprint for preventing and managing frailty in older people. This set out seven touchpoints of care that should be available to older people, as and when they need them and 12 recommendations to systems. One of the recommendations is specifically around the provision of rehabilitation and one of the touchpoints is ‘Integrated urgent community response, reablement, rehabilitation and intermediate care.’
In this new document, we take a deep dive into this Blueprint recommendation, looking at the evidence behind the provision of rehabilitation for older people and highlighting examples of best practice from across the UK and internationally. We argue that rehabilitation should be a component of virtually all care for older people, across all care settings, and that there is no such thing as ‘no rehabilitation potential.’
This document has been led by Professor Anne Hendry, Honorary Professor at the University of the West of Scotland and Senior Associate at the International Foundation for Integrated Care and a group of BGS members from across the UK and across disciplines have contributed to drafting the document. We hope that BGS members, commissioners and system leaders will find it useful in planning rehabilitation services for older people in their communities.
More information - full report.
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| Mental health | 8,500 beds blocked costing NHS providers around £900m per year 5 mins |
Social care | Operational productivity and performance in English NHS acute hospitals: Unwarranted variations £280m delayed transfers of care independent sector expenditure costs £482m lack of data (still!) Stepdown facilities |
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