Falls

This section brings together resources and links that support best practice in falls and injury prevention in older people. The RCN has been engaged in a number of collaborative projects, most recently the Fallsafe project, which explored falls prevention in hospitals. Resources developed from this project can be accessed via the link below:

Fallsafe - falls prevention in hospitals

The Falls Prevention Resources pack comprises a collection of quality improvement best practice measures for assessing the impact of the number of falls in clinical hospital wards as well as preventing and managing falls. It is available from the Royal College of Physicians website.

As part of the project an e-learning package on preventing falls in hospital was launched on 17th July.  This is available via the NHS National E-learning portal. It is a learning resource for nurses, covering the essential background, clinical knowledge base and practical tools needed to underpin best practice in  this area.  Please note that currently the e-learning can only be accessed by nurses working in the NHS, but the full suite of other Fallsafe resources can be downloaded free by nurses who work in all sectors.