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This national falls summit focuses on reducing inpatient falls, and harm from inpatient falls. Through national updates, practical case studies and learning from the National Audit of Inpatient Falls report published in October 2024. The conference will provide a step by step guide to implementing the multiple interventions that have been proven to reduce falls in your service. The conference will also focus on Gaining Insight from Inpatient Falls (GIIF) and linking with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
“In 2023, 1,959 people sustained a femoral fracture as an inpatient; 1,609 (82%) were due to a fall and included as cases in the National Audit of Inpatient Falls.”
National Audit of Inpatient Falls 10th October 2024
“Falls and fractures in older people are often preventable. Reducing falls and fractures is important for maintaining the health, wellbeing and independence of older people.”
Falls: applying All Our Health, Public Health England
The conference will also update delegates on implementing the recommendations from the National Audit of Inpatient Falls published in October 2024.
“Recommendations • Trusts and health boards (HBs) should review their policies and practice to ensure older hospital inpatients are enabled to be as active as possible. • NHS England and Welsh Government should implement national drivers to ensure that all older people are screened for delirium upon hospital admission using the 4AT and reviewed for changes suggestive of a new onset of delirium for the duration of their admission. • Trusts and health boards should ensure that there are robust governance processes in place to understand when post-fall checks fail to correctly identify a fall-related injury. • Trusts and health boards should have processes in place to hasten time to administration of analgesia after an injurious fall, to ensure patients who sustain a femoral fracture in hospital are given analgesia within 30 minutes of falling. • Trusts and health boards are encouraged to prepare for the audit expansion in January 2025.”
National Audit of Inpatient Falls October 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to reduce inpatient falls, and harm from inpatient falls
Understand the national context and learning from the National Audit of Inpatient Falls
Explore the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) in relation to falls and Gaining insight from Inpatient Falls (GIIF)
Improve care for patients by reducing inpatient falls, and harm from inpatient falls in your service
Reduce falls in older people presenting with frailty
Understand why patients who suffer fractures as a result of inpatient falls experience comparatively longer delays to hip fracture care: improving post-fall management
Learn from trusts who have developed multifaceted inpatient falls prevention programmes that work
Improve immediate post falls care and management
Understand how you can reduce harm from inpatient falls particularly focusing on inpatient hip fracture
Improve Multi Factorial Risk Assessment ensuring all components are covered
Improving practice in the identification and management of people at risk of falls at ward level
Reflect on case studies to reduce related to medication related falls including hypotension induced by medication
Reducing falls resulting from delirium
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
