General Information

The elderly care department is based on wards three, six and nine at Bradford Royal Infirmary with one rehabilitation ward F5 at St Luke’s Hospital. The department treats about 6,800 acute patients per year and has excellent links into other relevant departments, both within the foundation trust and externally.

 Some of the main features of the department are:

• Acute assessment with appropriate placement into intermediate care, discharge home or continued acute care
• Dedicated discharge coordinator who is able to ensure that patients do not spend longer than they need to in hospital
• Established orthogeriatric (for broken bones) service
• Age-related policy of 77 years and above for all acute medical problems
• Needs-related service for people in care above the age of 65 years
• Outpatient service for general medical problems and for specific problems for those aged 65 years and above
• All consultants have a specialist interest
• Research orientated - we are the main research centre for elderly care in Yorkshire
• Consultants work in community hospitals
• The majority of consultants have dual-recognised training and accreditation in general adult medicine and elderly care
• Training programme for community matron’s specialist service for falls, syncope (fainting), nutrition (diet) in elderly people
• Excellent teaching programme for medical students and junior doctors

The department is linked to the Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation. This was established with joint funding by the foundation trust and Bradford University in 2005. There are currently ten research staff, led by Professor John Young and Professor Anne Forster.

Our research mixes methods approaches to investigate service outcomes for older people, including patients with stroke, in both secondary (hospital) and primary care. Our current funding includes a Medical Research Council (MRC) clinical trials grant (£1.3m) a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) programme grant (£1.86m) and we host the Yorkshire Stroke Research Network (£1.2m)

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