All staff working in acute medical units (AMUs) will be familiar with the increasing number of older people living with frailty who require access to acute care.

This toolkit will help acute trusts to develop and initiate models of developmentally appropriate healthcare.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common condition that involves sudden, catastrophic loss of kidney function. It is estimated that AKI is associated with one in five emergency hospital admissions and causes up to 1.7 million deaths globally per year.

This toolkit provides practical guidance on how to organise AMS to ensure that the 12-hour consultant presence delivers consistent high-quality care.

This toolkit provides practical guidance on how to define teaching and learning episodes more clearly, and facilitate learning on the AMU effectively.

The toolkit includes a quick guide to common acute oncology emergencies and a guide to common medical problems caused by cancer diagnosis.

The medical registrar is perceived by many to be the medical ‘workhorse’ of the hospital and is relied upon heavily by many hospital and community teams. Registrars, however, are concerned about their ability to provide safe, high-quality patient care as their workload increases.

The ambulatory emergency care toolkit outlines the principles and highlights some of the benefits of this emerging care pathway.

An acute care toolkit designed to help physicians draw together the necessary data for understanding and measuring quality of care.

Handover is the system by which the responsibility for immediate and ongoing care is transferred between healthcare professions. Changing work patterns mean that establishing standards for handover should be a priority.