Resources

Procedure for measuring lying and standing blood pressure (BP)

The objective of this work was to create standardised, pragmatic advice on how to measure lying and standing BP in hospital wards. The purpose is to improve the adherence to this component of the NICE guidelines for fall prevention for hospital inpatients. Measuring lying and standing BP is part of the multi-factorial assessment to optimise safe activity (MASA).

Project information

04/02/25

FFFAP data processing statements

Data processing statements for the three workstreams within the RCP's Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP).

Report

09/01/25

FLS-DB annual report 2025

This is the eighth annual report for the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB). You’ve had a fracture how can we prevent another? provides national benchmark performance for the care of people with fragility fractures in 2023.

Project information

17/12/24

FFFAP Strategy: Improving quality in Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) services

The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) is a national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). It is committed to improving patient outcomes and the efficiency of care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in acute and primary care settings, and to facilitating QI initiatives.

Guidance

16/12/24

Bridging the gap: a guide to making health inequalities a strategic priority for NHS leaders

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published a guidance document for physicians focused on building understanding of health inequalities and the actions they can take to make this is a bigger priority in their workplace.

Data document

06/12/24

NAIF Transparency Data

In his transparency and open data letter to cabinet ministers on 7 July 2011, then prime minister, David Cameron, made a commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). This data was released in an open and standardised format for the first time in December 2011, and provided annually from then onwards.

Resource

06/12/24

NAIF resource repository

A repository of all resources produced by the National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) for healthcare professionals, patients and carers.

Resource

05/12/24

National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) Webinars

Latest NAIF seminar NAIF 2024 annual report and 2025 expansion

Toolkit

18/11/24

Acute care toolkit 17: Managing multiple medications

In England, we prescribe over 1 billion prescription items every year in primary care and over 1 million people in this country take 10 or more medicines for their long-term conditions. Almost half of these patients are aged 75 and over.