Falls (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)

Further resources

COVID-19 related resources:

  • CQC. Updates for health professionals:  and .
  • DHSC and NHIR: . Delivery of strength and balance exercises for falls prevention amongst older people using digital technologies to replace face-to-face contact during COVID-19 home isolation and physical distancing. 
  • . This app help reduce the high risk of falls and physical decline in older people self-isolating during the COVID-19 Lockdown.
  • Public Health England . A guide to being active at home during the coronavirus outbreak.

NICE guidance:

  • NICE (2019) .
  • NICE (2017) . This updated quality standard covers assessment after a fall and preventing further falls (secondary prevention) in older people living in the community and during a hospital stay.
  • NICE (2017) . This pathway covers the assessment and prevention of falls in older people both in the community and during a hospital stay.

Wider publications and toolkits:

  • NHS Improvement.  Supporting trusts to  reduce falls is a priority for NHS Improvement. Case study - Safety huddles reduce falls by as much as 60 per cent (page 10)
  • NIHR. . This toolkit provides a suite of resources that commissioners can use to plan, implement and monitor the FaME programme.
  • Public Health England. . Updated information on preventing falls and fractures. See also: .
  • Public Health England and Centre for Ageing Better (2018) . Summary of a rapid evidence review for the UK Chief Medical Officers' update of the physical activity guidelines.
  • Public Health England. . The return on investment tool pulls together evidence on the effectiveness and associated costs for interventions aimed at preventing falls in older people living in the community.
  • Royal College of Physicians. . The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme is a national clinical audit designed to audit the care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in hospital and to facilitate quality improvement initiatives.
  • Royal College of Physicians (2017) . The National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) has collaborated with partners to produce a new vision assessment tool which enables ward staff to quickly assess a patient's eyesight in order to help prevent them falling or tripping while in hospital.
  • Royal College of Physicians (2017) . Although prevention of inpatient falls across hospitals in England and Wales has improved slightly many patients are not receiving the required assessments which can help prevent falls in hospitals.
  • Royal College of Physicians (2016) . This guide is designed to help prevent serious injury and unnecessary cost to the NHS caused by older people tripping or falling when they are in hospital.
  • Royal College of Physicians (2015) . FallSafe was a quality improvement project that helped frontline staff to deliver evidence-based falls prevention.
  • World Falls Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Falls in Older Adults (2022). Full recommendations of the working and ad hoc groups from the World Falls guidelines with their detailed justifications, practical tips and research priorities.

Peer Reviewed Evidence:

  • NHS England,  Public Health England, National Osteoporosis Society. RightCare: Falls and Fragility Fractures Pathway.   accessed August 2022

Alcohol Misuse and Fall Risks:

Meta-analysis:

Dizziness and Falls:

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