Be careful using the F-word with frail patients

2017 saw the introduction of a new requirement for GPs to routinely identify frailty in patients as part of the new GP GMS contract.

Ahead of this Professor Martin J Vernon, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care reflects on the language we use when treating older patients;

“George Orwell observed: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms”.

I suspect this afflicts us all in public service from time to time, not least when addressing the language of ageing.”

You can read the rest of the blog here.

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