Falls in older people - NICE quality standard

"This quality standard covers assessment after a fall and preventing further falls (secondary prevention) in older people living in the community and during a hospital stay. Secondary prevention focuses on interventions targeted at older people with a history of falls."

Falls in older people: assessment after a fall and preventing further falls
NICE quality standard [QS86]
March 2015

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Crisis response falls team: reducing admissions and repeat falls

"This initiative saves money by reducing the proportion of falls related calls that result in hospital admission. From over 1300 referrals accepted by the CRFT in Northamptonshire in 2012, just over 1000 admissions were avoided." 

Crisis response falls team: reducing admissions and repeat falls
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
QIPP Case Study
August 2014

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Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay

"This paper uses Torbay’s unique patient-level linked data set to explore the cost of the care pathway for older people admitted to hospital as a result of a fall by tracking their care costs in the 12 months before and after their fall."

Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay
Y Tian, J Thompson, D Buck, L Sonola
The King's Fund
August 2013

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Falls prevention in older people

"This guideline updates and replaces 'Falls' (NICE clinical guideline 21)."

Falls: assessment and prevention of falls in older people
NICE Clinical Guideline 161
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
June 2013

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Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients

"The STRATIFY scale was found to be the best tool for assessing the risk of falls by hospitalized acutely-ill adults."

Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
M Aranda-Gallardo, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:122

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Factors influencing the implementation of fall prevention programmes

"The issues identified through this synthesis need to be fully considered and addressed if fall-prevention programmes are to be successfully implemented into clinical practice."

Factors influencing the implementation of fall prevention programmes: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies
S Child, V Goodwin, R Garside, T Jones-Hughes, K Boddy, K Stein
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:91

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'Harm free' care

This initiative is the national roll out of the pilot Safety Express QIPP programme. 'Harm free' care is defined by the absence of pressure ulcers, falls, urinary catheters, and venous thromboembolism, and this collection of resources and case studies has been developed to reduce these incidents.

Find out more and access all the resources here.

eLearning resources to improve patient care

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has formed a joint venture with Virtual College to develop the Productives e-learning suite. This suite is designed for staff, team leaders, programme managers and leaders to help them use The Productive Series: Releasing Time to Care (TM) programme. Read more here.

eLearning for Healthcare has developed "e-learning for Harm Free Care", an online educational resource designed to support frontline teams in delivering harm free care, as defined by an absence of four common harms: pressure ulcers, harm from falls, catheter acquired urinary tract infections (CaUTI) and venous thromboembolism (VTE).

Find out more here.