An initiative to improve outcomes for people living with frailty across Lincolnshire has taken a positive step forward in Gainsborough.

The ‘100 Day Challenge’ is focused on rapidly testing ideas to see what works and what doesn't work, with ideas evolving and new ideas emerging over the course of the challenge.

In Gainsborough, the team is now using a new ‘admission and discharge’ email notification on the care portal, which allows them to reach out to people who they previously would not have known were living with frailty and potentially very vulnerable in the Gainsborough area.

Initially, the intention was to use the alert to identify those discharged from hospital and then  follow up with those people, embedding the  principles of person-centred care and frailty best practice. What the alert has also enabled the team do, though, is reach into hospital wards, thereby encouraging staff to link to the neighbourhoods in which the person lives.

The alert is already making a tangible difference to the team’s mission to reach frail and vulnerable people, having received notifications for 62 patients, both emergency and day case admissions, since going live at the end of May. 

The alert is now going to be rolled out to other neighbourhoods involved in the 100-day frailty challenge.