Another awesome day in University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust with Medline’s EU Product Manager - seeing the “See Yellow” Falls Prevention initiative in action in Poole Hospital ED, AMU & RACE. Matthew Hodson RN QN MBE He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 Dr Lindsay Welch
Great response & engagement from everyone - thank you!

Visit from the EU Medline Textile Product Manager to University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to see first hand the amazing work being carried out in to reduce falls and associated harms using the Medline Falls Prevention kit (see poster on wall 😉)

Next week is
Walking Stick Check Week November 13th-17th 2023

Benefits of a safe walking stick with the right tread?

Falls prevention ✔
Better posture ✔
More steady ✔
Less slips ✔
Injury prevention
#fallsprevention #walkingstickMOT

Great couple of days University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust rolling out a “See Yellow, Think Falls” project in ED at Poole & Bournemouth Hospitals.
Thank you to everyone involved for your enthusiasm & engagement in reducing falls in ED and the wider hospital 😁👍🏻

A massive thank you for all your time, hard work and dedication this #FallsAwarenessWeek .

Together we can all make a real difference😊😊

Tell us how it was for you: surveymonkey.de/r/3QFNN79
#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Day 5 of #FallsAwarenessWeek

How has it been for you and your teams?
What can we do differently next year?

Please complete our 3 minute #FallsAwarenessWeek survey and help us keep improving: surveymonkey.de/r/3QFNN79

Thank you!

#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

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Day 3 of #FallsAwarenessWeek

Keep the 'My 3 things' pledges coming! #ActionOnFalls

Also, don't forget today from 12-1pm (BST) our webinar from Shona Mackinnon on the Improving Post-Falls Management QI Project NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Register here: bit.ly/44atsry
#ThinkFalls

Thank you to @juliecwindsor and Julie Whitney for the Post-Falls Responses webinar today!! Brill as always!😊😊

Don't forget our last 2 webinars:
20/09:Post-Fall Management QI Project
21/09: Free-Falling

Register here: bit.ly/44atsry

#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Day 2 of #FallsAwarenessWeek !

So much great activity already!

Today from 12-1pm (BST), don’t forget our webinar with @juliecwindsor and Julie Whitney on Post Falls Management.

Still need to register? bit.ly/44atsry
#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Post falls management is a big topic for our #FallsAwarenessWeek webinars.

19/09: Post Falls Responses with Julie Windsor
and Dr Julie Whitney
20/09: Improving Post-Fall Management QI project Shona Mackinnon
Register here: bit.ly/44atsry
#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

#FallsAwarenessWeek 2023 is here.

It's great to see all the activities you have planned. Keep sharing all your updates with us!

Also, don't forget our lunch time webinars.

It's not too late to register: bit.ly/44atsry

#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Ready and set for #FallsAwarenessWeek 2023?

It's great to see all the events and other activities you have planned.

Also, don't forget we have 3 more lunchtime webinars!

Still need to register? bit.ly/44atsry
#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Following the brilliant webinar from Patient_Safety@WHH 💙, we're looking forwards to Madeleine Gifford from The Hillingdon Hospitals sharing her great QI project to reduce stroke inpatient falls on 14/09 at 12pm (BST)

Register here: bit.ly/44atsry

#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

Thank you to Patient_Safety@WHH 💙 for a really insightful session today. If you are on the Falls Practitioners Network workspace on FutureNHS you can pick up the recording and discussion here: bit.ly/3rawK0a
If not, send us a DM and we can invite you to it 😊 #ThinkFalls

Less than a week to go until #FallsAwareness Week !!

We are getting things started today with the first of our #FallsAwareness webinars! #MaternityFallsPrevention

You can still register: bit.ly/44atsry
#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

We have sent out joining instructions for all the webinars via email to everyone who has registered so far for #FallsAwarenessWeek - >1,000 of you!!

Still need to register? bit.ly/44atsry

See you Monday at 12!

#ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

'Patient_Safety@WHH 💙 will run our first #FallsAwarenessWeek webinar on 11/09. Vanessa and Nikki will share their journey towards a falls prevention guideline in maternity.

Register here: bit.ly/44atsry

#MaternityFirst #ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls