Date & Time
Thursday 16th May, 2024
9:15 AM - 4:30 PM
Venue
Online
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About
Almost a third of older people experience a fall every year, with 5% of these falls leading to a fracture and hospitalisation, at an estimated cost of £435 million to the NHS.
As outlined in the 2023 Urgent and Emergency Care plan, NHS England is looking to standardise and scale up falls and frailty services to increase access to joined up approaches across inpatient and community care. With falls becoming increasingly common, contributing to discharge delay through longer-term hospital stays, it is now more crucial than ever that the health and social care, voluntary and local government sectors have effective fall prevention services in place.
Join this one-day interactive event on Preventing Falls in Older People to learn how to plan, structure and deliver effective fall prevention strategies. Featuring practical examples from different settings and group collaboration sessions, this course analyses the key areas of effective falls prevention plans, including evaluating the causes of falls, multifactorial assessments, and personalised interventions. In a highly interactive day, you will work together with peers to identify effective strategies for managing and preventing falls and clarify their potential for a tailored fall prevention strategy to implement in your organisation.
Learning Objectives:
Understand and implement the updated NICE and related national guidance
Engage with the process of multifactorial assessment and intervention
Learn how to prevent falls among older people with delirium and dementia
Discuss how to effectively report and respond to falls
Create a successful fall prevention strategy for primary and secondary care
Lead Trainer
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician, King’s College London
Professor Cameron Swift is a key member of the NICE Falls Clinical Guideline Development Group (GDG) and Quality Standards Advisory Committee that developed the core national guidance (CG24/161; 2004/2013) and updated Falls Quality Standard (QS86) (published in January 2017).
In the past, he served as Physician to the DOH External Reference Group for the England National Service Framework for Older People, and in this capacity chaired the Working Party for Standard 6 (Falls & Fractures). He has also been Chairman of the NICE GDG, & subsequent Quality Standard Topic Expert Group for Hip Fracture (CG124, QS86)(2011, 2012). He continues to serve as an expert member in current updates of NICE guidance (2014) and Quality Standards (2016-17) on both of these topics.
Expert Speakers
Dr Louis Koizia
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Imperial College NHS Trust
Dr Anna Winfield
Specialist & QI Lead
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Ben Scott
Improvement Lead for Falls
Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Carrie Tyler
Falls Improvement Specialist Practitioner
Mid and South Essex NHS Trust
Agenda
9:15 am
Logging on and Accessing the Platform
9:30 am
Trainer's Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician
King's College London
9:45 am
Falls Prevention – Importance, Rationale and Content
Revisiting the focus, necessity, opportunity and challenge of falls prevention in older adults
Evaluating the evidence behind an effective falls prevention service and understanding what works and why.
Understanding the development, availability and content of national and international guidance on falls prevention, including the NICE Guideline and Quality Standards and the World Guidelines
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician
King's College London
10:30 am
Integrated Falls Prevention And Organisational Collaboration
Learning the key factors in developing, implementing and maintaining an effective falls prevention service
Integrated falls prevention and organisational collaboration. Ensuring prompt access for those at risk.
Local and national audit – necessity, opportunity and resources
Understanding and responding to the latest report of the National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF)
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician
King's College London
11:15 am
Morning Break
11:30 am
The Role of First Response in Falls Management and Prevention
Achieving optimal first response falls assessment and management
Multidisciplinary first response teams
First response as an integral component of national falls prevention strategy
Ben Scott
Improvement Lead for Falls
Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust - CONFIRMED
12:15 pm
Environmental, Teamwork And Human Factors Strategies For Inpatient Prevention And Management
Effective risk identification – moving on from “risk factor lists”
Defining and implementing successful patient-centred and environmental strategies
Learning and benefitting from investigation following an inpatient fall
Carrie Tyler
Falls Improvement Specialist Practitioner, Mid and South Essex NHS Trust - CONFIRMED
12:45 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Using QI and Local Audit to Improve Falls Prevention and Management
Setting and applying clear standards for falls prevention
Tailoring patient care and management to individual need and risk
Successful inpatient falls reduction in Leeds – the Falls Quality Initiative
Methods of monitoring and measuring change for the better
Making best use of local audit to drive falls reduction
Dr Anna Winfield
Specialist & QI Lead
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - CONFIRMED
2:15 pm
Identifying and Managing Delirium in Older People to Prevent Falls
Analysing how falls are significantly more likely to occur for older people experiencing delirium, particularly for people with dementia
Understanding the key indicators of delirium and how to effectively treat and manage delirium in older people
Discussing how fall prevention intervention should be tailored for older people with delirium
Developing multifactorial assessments for older people with delirium
Implementing and delivering effective strategies to prevent falls among older people with delirium
Dr Louis Koizia
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Imperial College NHS Trust - Virtual Presentation
3:00 pm
Afternoon Break
3:15 pm
Creating A Successful And Comprehensive Falls Prevention Strategy
Interactive Breakout Groups Session
Discuss with other delegates and share knowledge, opportunities and challenges between services
Strategic core-component planning to reduce the number, cost and impact of falls in your service.
Engagement of key stakeholders to ensure your strategy is understood and supported
Identifying and overcoming obstacles to networking services and maximising referrals
Using national and local audit to drive progress
Creating a falls prevention action plan in line with National standards to take back to your organisation
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician
King's College London
4:00 pm
Group Feedback, Plenary Discussion
Professor Cameron Swift
Consultant Physician
King's College London
4:30 pm
Summary, Evaluation And Close
*Programme Subject to Change
Pricing
Public Sector
(Online Price)
£345 + VAT
Private Sector
(Online Price)
£445 + VAT