Upskill for Frailty
Empower With Frailty Education
Enhancing Domiciliary Care and Healthcare Professionals' Skills
💼 Dr. Kirsten Protherough MBChB MRCGP
Independent Frailty Consultant | GP | Educator and Innovator | Strategist
I help care providers, systems, and training organisations deliver high-quality, person-centred care for older adults living with frailty.
I’m Chair of the Community Hospital Association, a GP with a special interest in frailty and dementia, and the founder of Home Visit Healthcare, a private GP service offering home visits, assessments, and frailty-focused consultancy.
I also lead Upskill for Frailty , an education programme supporting care agencies, carers, and managers to improve confidence and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.
You can also find me writing "Healthacate", a LinkedIn newsletter on positive ageing and frailty, read by over 1,000 professionals across health and social care.
🔹 How I Can Help
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Frailty-focused training and webinars for care teams
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Expert advice for domiciliary care, franchises, and providers
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Fractional Frailty support at board level to guide frailty service development
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Education programme development for universities, NHS, and training bodies
🔹 Trusted By
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University of Worcester – Senior Lecturer on the Tier 3 Frailty Course
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British Geriatrics Society & Royal College of General Practitioners – Member
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The Home Care Association - Providing frailty webinars and workshops
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Bluebird Franchise Wychavon providing delirium training
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Hundreds of carers and clinicians via the Upskill for Frailty platform
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Care companies, ICS teams, and training providers across the UK
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Practice Plus Out of Hours GP
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Worcestershire Health and Care Trust Weekend GP
Topics I regularly teach or consult on:
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Frailty and prescribing risk
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De-prescribing and poly-pharmacy
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Palliative care and advance planning
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Positive ageing and reversing frailty
📩 Open to partnerships with:
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Care providers and franchises
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Training bodies and universities
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ICS/PCN leads seeking frailty input
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Innovators building better models for older adults
Let’s work together to raise the standard of frailty care across the UK.
📬 kirsten@upskillforfrailty.com
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My Memberships and Affiliations
I am a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
I am the Chair of the Community Hospital Association
I am a member of the British Geriatrics Society
I am founder of Home Visit Healthcare a home visiting private GeriGP Service
I am a senior lecturer at the University of Worcester on the Tier 3 e-learning Frailty course
I have lectured on and contributed clinical case studies for the following topics for non medical prescribers, ACPs, PAs and GP Trainees:
- Delirium
- Risk in prescribing and frailty
- Poly-pharmacy and de-prescribing in frailty
- Multi-comorbidity and frailty
- Palliative care and frailty
- Positive ageing
- Reversing frailty
Frailty Webinars - Live, Interactive & Fun!
Upcoming webinars and workshops
2 Day Frailty Train the Trainer CourseTue 16 SeptOnline event
Understanding and Managing Frailty Training - Train the trainers, Online 930am - 130pm (1)Date and time is TBCvirtual
Once there are plans available for purchase, you’ll see them here.
No plans available
Useful frailty resource carousel for service managers
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This framework aims to identify and describe the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver high quality, holistic, compassionate care and support.
Frailty: A framework of core capabilities by Skills for Health, HEE and NHS
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Webinar Testimonials
Really clear and concise information. Sometimes subjects like this can get too confusing and overwhelming but this went through things in a very step-by-step and informative way, with plenty of helpful resources.
Webinar Attendee
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