A repository of all resources produced by the National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) for healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
Patient and carer resources
This resource 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.
Have you suffered a fracture after a fall or are you caring for someone who has?
Launched on World Osteoporosis Day 20 October 2024, this interactive resource aims to bring together resources across various patient pathways and have all useful information in one place to help support patients and carers involved in the recovery journey after suffering a broken bone from a fall.
With over 1,300 people experiencing a fall related femoral fracture while in hospital across England and Wales in 2021, the National Audit of Inpatient Falls has put together a resource that can help patients, their carers and named contacts in understanding potential next steps and how to access further help.
The patient and carer panel, who advise the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP), chose the three most important findings of the most recent report to help you understand what your hospital should be doing to prevent falls and how to respond to a fall if it does happen.
This resource is aimed at Healthcare Champions who are looking to influence and improve the care and management of patients who have fallen in an inpatient setting.
Clinical resources
This resource is designed to assist clinical teams in standardising their approach to falls prevention in hospitals. It is evidence-based and seeks to address variability in recording lying and standing blood pressure.
Created for clinicians, 'Supporting best and safe practice in post-fall management in inpatient settings' clarifies what constitutes a post-fall check for injury. By providing guidance on how to implement best practice in post-fall management processes, training and competencies.
An interactive e-learning tool designed for foundation level doctors, but appropriate for all healthcare professionals which covers the knowledge needed to identify and reduce patient and environmental risk factors to assist with reducing inpatient falls.
This vision assessment tool enables ward staff to quickly assess a patient’s eyesight to help prevent them falling or tripping while in hospital.
Have an improvement story to share? Visit our improvement repository and find out how to share your successes with the NAIF community.
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is a new approach to learning from safety events in healthcare.
NAIF expansion - from 1 January 2025
See our latest resources below to support the auditing expanding in 2025: