Falls are a common cause of harm for people in hospital.
Falls change package
This change package provides an evidence-informed resource to support NHS boards with improvement work to reduce falls.
It includes the following:
- Driver diagram
- Change ideas
- Guides, tools and signposting to the supporting evidence and examples of good practice
- Guidance to support measurement
It should be used with the falls measurement framework.
The change package was co-designed by clinical, care, and quality improvement experts from across Scotland, and informed by the lived experience of people and their families.
Documents are currently
Falls measurement framework
Measures are essential to help teams to learn if the changes they are making are leading to an improvement.
The measures contained in this framework will assist teams to measure key changes in the falls change package.
Resources
We publish a range of resources to support the reduction in harm from falls in acute settings.
- SPSP Acute Adult Programme Falls Reduction Change Package
- SPSP Acute Adult Programme Falls Measurement Framework
- SPSP Acute Adult Programme Falls Reduction Change Package Accessible Document
- Falls highlights report
- Full impact report
Webinars
- Creating a Culture of Change for Falls in Scotland (November 2022):
- Falls: Time for Movement (March 2022)
- Managing Delirium to prevent Falls (April 2021)
Further reading
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy – Preventing Falls in Hospital
- Overview | Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk | Guidance | NICE[SP1]
- Otago Exercise Programme
- Royal College of Physicians: Measurement of lying and standing blood pressure
- Lying and standing blood pressure measurement guide | RCP
- The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Falls Prevention in Hospital: a Guide for Patients, their Families and Carers
- Delirium Website