Walsh, Bronagh, Fogg, Carole, England, Tracey, Lambert, Francesca, Griffiths, Peter, Barkham, Abigail, Ball, Jane, Brailsford, Sally, Fenge, Lee Ann, Vernon, Martin and Windle, Vivienne (2024) Understanding the workforce needs of health and social care services for people living with frailty: a scoping review protocol (Open Science Framework) Open Science Framework 27pp. (doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/53BYZ).
Abstract
Why is this review needed?
Older people with complex health problems are increasingly characterised as “living with frailty” within health and social care settings. Frailty is more common in older people, affecting 44% of adults aged 65 and older in England. Better care for people living with frailty is essential to improve health and quality of life and help the NHS and Social Care to be more efficient. The NHS needs to ensure that they have the right number of staff, with the right skills working in the right place. To do this, organisations delivering health and social care need to know more about what services are required by people living with frailty, and the numbers and type of health and social care staff needed to run those services. This review is part of a larger study which aims to develop a tool (a computer model) to predict the staff numbers with the skills the that are needed to provide the best care for adults living with frailty. This review will help to gather background information on what is currently happening and available, so that this information can be considered by the research team and their NHS and Social care partners, as they develop the tool.
How will this review be done?
This review aims to gather data from sources around the world which provide information about specific services which deliver health and social care for adults living with frailty. To do this, the study team will use online databases and the internet to search for the relevant information, using keywords which are relevant for the topic area. We will search academic journals, as well as information from people who provide the services such as NHS Trusts and Local Authorities, and other organisations whose remit includes informing, designing, delivering or evaluating services for older people living with frailty. Working with our stakeholder consultation group, including NHS and Social care partners, patients, carers and members of the public, we will decide which information is important to extract to be able to meet our aim, and how to present it.
How will the results from the review be used?
The results from this review should include a description of different health and social care services that are used by people living with frailty, and the type and numbers of staff providing care. This information, together with other information collected during the study, will be applied to an existing tool which predicts the numbers of people living with frailty in the future and their needs for health and social care. The research team and the stakeholders will look at different scenarios for service delivery, with its associated workforce, and estimate what the future workforce to provide care for this patient and service user group might be. This will help people who plan services to plan the workforce required in their local areas.
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