Since June 2016, both Wallingford and Didcot Community Hospitals have introduced a falls bundle as part of the individual care and comfort rounding assessments to support patient assessments hourly. There are specific falls prompts to enable conversation with patients to promote self-awareness and education and support the introduction of safety elements to reduce risk of falls and determine quick reference prompts enabling early diagnosis tic prevention i.e. urinalysis and postural drops in blood pressure. These charts will be rolled out across all older people wards by December 2016. A baseline audit was carried out prior to the roll out of the new falls bundle, as described above, the results showed 47% of community hospital ward patients and 62% of older people mental health ward patients had a completed falls risk assessment on admission (this improves to 87% when looking at whether risk assessment was repeated after 28 days); it is expected that this will notably improve once the new charts are in use. In the wards using the new falls bundle 100% compliance was found with falls risk assessments. As of Oct 2016 94% of staff across the older people mental health wards and community hospital wards (n=352) have received training on the management of falls.
Since June 2016, both Wallingford and Didcot Community Hospitals have introduced a falls bundle as part of the individual care and comfort rounding assessments to support patient assessments hourly. There are specific falls prompts to enable conversation with patients to promote self-awareness and education and support the introduction of safety elements to reduce risk of falls and determine quick reference prompts enabling early diagnosis tic prevention i.e. urinalysis and postural drops in blood pressure. These charts will be rolled out across all older people wards by December 2016. A baseline audit was carried out prior to the roll out of the new falls bundle, as described above, the results showed 47% of community hospital ward patients and 62% of older people mental health ward patients had a completed falls risk assessment on admission (this improves to 87% when looking at whether risk assessment was repeated after 28 days); it is expected that this will notably improve once the new charts are in use. In the wards using the new falls bundle 100% compliance was found with falls risk assessments. As of Oct 2016 94% of staff across the older people mental health wards and community hospital wards (n=352) have received training on the management of falls.
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