1) Within your trust who is responsible for ensuring that the trust have the appropriate equipment for the management of falls? This should not be confused with a procurement team purchasing the equipment more who makes the clinical decision. (Often this will sit with a Manual Handling Advisor or Falls lead)
We have a Safer Handling Practitioner who mainly deals with appropriate equipment for the management of falls, as well as a Falls Lead Nurse who collaborates with them in regards to equipment.
2) Within your trust, if known, please could you confirm the number of falls reported in total for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to current date of recorded data.
3) Of those falls, if known, please can you confirm the number of falls that were deemed as non-injury.
Total number of falls reported for 2019: 1381 in total.
Approximately 1200 reported as 'no harm'
Total number of falls reported for 2020: 1347 in total.
Approximately 1140 reported as 'no harm'.
Total number of falls reported in 2021: 1318 in total.
Approximately 1260 reported as 'no harm'
Total number of falls in 2022 reported to the end of November: 1208 in total so far.
Approximately 1090 reported as 'no harm'
4) At any site within your trust, do you have a falls response team/bleep where a designated person(s respond to a reported fall.
There is <5 Acute Falls Lead nurse in post, covering <5 hospital sites - due to the wide geographical spread of the Trust
5) Does your trust have any of the following equipment within the trust and if so how many
· Flat Lifting Kit – Mangar Rhino, Hovertech Hoverjac, GBUK Banana Flojac
· Mechanical Lifting Aid – Liftup Raizer Chair
· Air Assisted Lifting Aid – Mangar Elk, Camel or Eagle
· Any other equipment used for the retrieval of the fallen patient
Our Trust has 6 GBUK banana Flojacs
We have <5 Molift.
Wards should be able to access or possess hoists, but the number of these is unknown.
