Falls improvement tools & resources

Page content: VQC new online falls education package | The Quick Reference Guide & the Guidelines | Research, tools & education supplements | The Tools Supplement | Falls Posters | Evaluation of the guidelines

VQC new online falls education package

To support clinicians in identifying and implementing interventions strategies that relate specifically to individual risk factors, the VQC has developed an online falls education package with modules for acute, sub-acute and residential settings.  The package is available online.  

The Quick Reference Guide & the Guidelines

Contain information specifically aimed at the care of the individual patient and are designed for use on the ward.

• Minimising the risk of falls and fall-related injuries - Guidelines for acute, sub-acute and residential care settings (685kb, pdf)

• Minimising the risk of falls and fall-related injuries - Quick Reference Guide (256kb, pdf)

Research, tools & education supplements

Are aimed at the falls coordinator, or other person responsible for falls prevention in each hospital who can use these in the hospital's falls prevention program.

• Research Supplement (559kb, pdf)

• Education Supplement (511kb, pdf)

• Tools Supplement (1,480kb, pdf)

Falls Posters

• Falls Don't Just Happen (558kb, pdf)

• Identifiying Falls Risk Factors (467kb, pdf)

• Process Model for minimising the risk of falls and fall related injuries (212kb, pdf)

• Falls Analysis - Demonstration (56kb, MS Excel)

Evaluation of the Guidelines

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the ‘Minimising Risk of Falls and Fall-related Injuries: Guidelines for Acute, Sub-acute and Residential Care Settings’ - Final report (216kb, pdf)

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