NAIF resource repository

This latest clinical resource which covers each step of a post-fall medical examination, from referral and risk assessment to primary and secondary surveys, with prompts for analgesia, anticoagulation, and delirium management.

What's included:

• step-by-step explanatory notes
• proforma for documentation
• implementation toolkit for training needs

This brief guide for the measurement of LSBP is designed to assist clinical teams in standardising their approach to falls prevention in hospitals. It is evidence-based and seeks to address variability in recording lying and standing blood pressure.

Created for clinicians, 'Supporting best and safe practice in post-fall management in inpatient settings' clarifies what constitutes a post-fall check for injury. By providing guidance on how to implement best practice in post-fall management processes, training and competencies.

This vision assessment tool enables ward staff to quickly assess a patient’s eyesight to help prevent them falling or tripping while in hospital.

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The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is a new approach to learning from safety events in healthcare. 

This interactive e-learning tool is designed for foundation level doctors, but appropriate for all healthcare professionals which covers the knowledge needed to identify and reduce patient and environmental risk factors to assist with reducing inpatient falls.

This guide provides jargon free information on the care patients can expect to receive in hospital, as well as advice on how to be alert to potential dangers and what to do to avoid them. 

Have you suffered a fracture after a fall or are you caring for someone who has?

This interactive resource aims to bring together resources across various patient pathways and have all useful information in one place to help support patients and carers involved in the recovery journey after suffering a broken bone from a fall.

With over 1,300 people experiencing a fall related femoral fracture while in hospital across England and Wales in 2021, NAIF has put together a resource that can help patients, their carers and named contacts in understanding potential next steps and how to access further help.

The patient and carer panel, who advise the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP), chose the three most important findings of the most recent report to help you understand what your hospital should be doing to prevent falls and how to respond to a fall if it does happen.

This resource is aimed at Healthcare Champions who are looking to influence and improve the care and management of patients who have fallen in an inpatient setting.