Reducing Harms from Falls

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The NHS Patient Safety First Campaign has produced a 'How to' guide aimed at managers and teams involved in leading and implementing changes to reduce harm from falls. As the nature of falls prevention is complex and controlled by multiple factors, this document has been divided into two sets of interventions, one for organisational leaders, and one for frontline staff, both of which need to be addressed by organisations who wish to reduce harm from falls. The guide is in three parts: first steps towards reducing harm from falls; leadership actions to reduce harm from falls and actions for frontline staff to reduce harm from falls. There are also links to a 'How to' guide for Implementing Human Factors in Healthcare and a video which tells the story of the real-life consequences of clinical human errors during a 'routine operation'.

http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/interventions/additionalguidence/