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Falls Prevention & Management in Older People

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

15Hatfields, London, OR Virtual, Online

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“Older and more vulnerable people are at a significant risk of falls.

Department of Health and Social Care March 2024

“The world’s population is ageing. Falls and related injuries are increasingly common, making their prevention and management a critical global challenge. Many falls can be prevented.

British Geriatric Society

“Every year, over 70,000 people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will fall and sustain a hip fracture.

National Hip Fracture Database September 2024

This conference focuses on falls prevention and management in older people with a focus on ensuring effective and resilient falls prevention activity. The conference will update delegates on the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management in Older Adults and highlight best practice through case studies. Sessions throughout the day will focus on activity and falls, developing falls prevention and healthy ageing, understanding human factors in falls prevention, meeting the psychological needs of those who have fallen or are at risk of falls, improving falls education and awareness, effective personalised multidisciplinary assessment, reducing falls on the ward, falls and mental health including delirium prevention, medication management and improving secondary prevention. The conference will also discuss key elements in the reduction of falls in your service including strength, balance and exercise promotion, managing underlying health issues, developing personalized falls prevention care plans, frailty presenting as falls. The conference will also update delegates on national requirements for falls investigation and learning under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

“The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is a new approach to learning from safety events in healthcare. It is a move away from a simple reactive approach to learning and improvement towards an approach that balances proportional proactive responses alongside learning from past events…. Falls are the most commonly reported patient safety event with around 250,000 occurring in inpatient settings in England every year. Falls are not random events but occur due to the presence of fall risk factors. Evidence suggests that all inpatients aged over 65 should have a multi-factorial fall risk factor assessment to identify fall risk factors and prompt tailored interventions. When falls do occur, prompt and effective post-fall management should be delivered. Aligned with PSIRF principles, responses to falls should be proportionate based on the potential for new learning and improvement and should focus on exploring multiple contributory factors. To learn from falls and improve patient safety, the response should seek to understand how fall prevention is managed at an organisational, unit/ward and patient level using multi-disciplinary input”

The Royal College of Physicians PSIRF document for Falls 2023

Benefits of attending:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to improving falls prevention and management in older people

  • Reflect on the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention

  • Develop your skills and improve competence in falls prevention and management

  • Improve your skills in the development of healthy ageing and effective strength and balance programmes

  • Examine how a human factors approach could support you to prevent falls

  • Understand the national requirements for falls investigation under PSIRF, and how findings from investigations can be used to inform falls prevention

  • Learn from established in the development of multidisciplinary assessment and post fall protocols

  • Understand how you can better meet the psychological needs of those who have fallen

  • Improve falls education and awareness in older people and support people to change behaviour

  • Identify and manage people at risk of falling, and effectively investigate and learn from falls when they do occur

  • Improve secondary prevention of falls and fractures

  • Learn from best practice in dementia, delirium prevention and falls

  • Update your knowledge on how effective medicines management can reduce falls

  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice

  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

Speakers include:

Prof Cameron Swift

Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician & Specialist Committee Member, Falls Prevention Quality Standard, NICE
School of Medicine
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Julie Whitney

Clinical Lead, National Audit of Inpatient Falls
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Samantha Machen

Head of Patient Safety Incident Response
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Exhibition & Sponsorship Packages

This conference offers a valuable opportunity for industry suppliers to personally meet with their target audience where they will have time to talk and demonstrate the benefits of their products. High quality specialist audiences make having a presence at our events a highly targeted and cost effective marketing channel.

Why Exhibit?

Having a presence at this event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Demonstrate your product, system or service
  • Network and engage with your key audience  
  • Generate new business leads
  • Gain exposure for your brand and raise the profile of your organisation
  • Understand the current needs of your audience and challenges they’re facing
  • Update your knowledge of national policy and local developments  

Enquire

Contact Sarah Jane for exhibition and sponsorship prices, or to discuss a tailored package to suit your needs and budget.

Getting to the Venue

Location

15Hatfields, Chadwick Court, London, SE1 8DJ

By rail

15Hatfields is situated no more than a 10-minute walk from four underground and mainline stations: Waterloo Station, Southwark Station, Blackfriars Station, Waterloo East

Venue Map

Fee Options

NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

Virtual NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Virtual Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Virtual Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

(Prices in brackets include VAT)

Discounts

Additional delegate discount:

A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates.

Online discount:

A discount of 10% will be applied if you pay using the website.

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