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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
