Why use Action Falls
Every Care Home resident should have a falls risk assessment. Here are just a few reasons why you should use the Action Falls programme as your falls risk assessment toolkit.
• Action Falls has been recommended by the UK NHS in the Enhanced Health in Care Home Framework.
• It has been proven to reduce falls by 43% in the largest Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) in UK care homes.
• It is referred to and informs part of the World Falls Guidelines.
• The benefits are not only to the care home residents but the whole health and social care pathway – ambulance services, acute hospitals, intermediate care facilities.
• Investing in falls prevention in the summer will have a positive effect on winter pressures.
• Action Falls is best practice when it comes to falls prevention and can improve staff satisfaction, morale and resident wellbeing.
• Action Falls directly supports the sickness to prevention and hospital to community care shifts of the NHS 10 year plan.
Policy and institutional support for Action Falls
The Action Falls programme is supported by several leaders in the field of improving quality of life, health and wellbeing for care home residents. The Action Falls programme has been recommended by:
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines
The Action Falls programme forms part of the research evidence used in the latest NICE guidelines on the assessment and prevention of falls in older people and people aged over 50 at higher risk.
Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
Action Falls is specifically recommended by, Multiprofessional Fellow, Victoria Place in the Falls in Care Homes Best Practice Guidelines.
British Geriatrics Society
Leah Bressington, a British Geriatrics Society Care Home Fellow talks in her blog about the importance and centrality of care home nurses in preventing falls. This sentiment was echoed in the Action Falls research findings.
NHS England's Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework
NHS England names and recommends Action Falls as best practice for preventing falls through it’s multifactorial risk assessment and tools for action.
World Falls Guidelines
The World Falls Guidelines drew on research evidence from the clinical trials underpinning Action Falls. By using Action Falls, you are following the recommendation to use a multifactorial falls risk assessment that helps support co-design of personalised and multidomain intervention for managing falls risk.