We typically see inpatients who require urgent hospital care, and may have an associated syndrome of frailty such as recurrent falls, needing support and care to do daily activities, and may have chronic confusion such as delirium or dementia.
Our pharmacy team has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award for improving safety and quality of care for frail patients attending the Emergency Department at Royal Derby Hospital, through ...
The team at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital's Andrew Ward has been praised for implementing learning following a patient fall to help drastically reduce the frequency of incidents and improving...
We offer specialist frailty and elderly assessments through our Frail Elderly Assessment Team (FEAT+) > to support patients on attendance to the Emergency Department and assessment areas. We also operate surgical and orthopaedic services to support other specialities managing inpatients with multi-morbidity and frailty.
We have a variety of outpatient services, which include multidisciplinary clinics such as the Comprehensive Assessment Service for Older People (CASOP), which provide patients with support from consultants and therapists, to help with preventing falls and other medical problems.
We provide speciality clinics, including one for Parkinson's Disease - as a Trust we are an accredited Centre of Excellence; one of only two centres across the UK.
At Royal Derby Hospital there are 14 consultants and four DME inpatient wards.
At Queen’s Hospital Burton, we have four consultants and two DME inpatient wards.
Staff on these wards have specialist skills to treat patients with diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's. They also have highly developed skills in falls awareness and the treatment of respiratory conditions.