NHS 111 Discovery frailty flagging
Project Summary
The NHS 111 Discovery frailty flagging project utilises Discovery data to flag key information to NHS 111 call handlers to improve the patient pathway and experience, and reduce the unnecessary use of emergency services and admission to A&E.
Since the project went live in November 2018, the Discovery Data Service has:
- matched 4,823,063 patients
- flagged 338,179 potentially frail patients
- processed 29,347,747 API calls
The graph shows the number of patients that have been flagged as potentially frail and have therefore been fast tracked to speak directly to a clinician who can provide personalised care; it shows the cumulative total (from the start of the project) and the percentage of potentially frail patients compared to the total number of matched patients (over the last 12 months).
Last update: 2 December 2024
Project population
All patients within North East London ICB; Barking and Dagenham, City and Hackney, Havering, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, and Newham.
Project cohort
Frail patients
Project criteria
See the frailty algorithm page for more details.
Data state
Patient identifiable
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