Falls and fracture consensus statement: supporting commissioning for prevention

Authors:
PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND, NATIONAL FALLS PREVENTION COORDINATION GROUP
Publisher:
Public Health England
Publication year:
2017
Pagination:
22
Place of publication:
London

This document outlines interventions and approaches that local commissioners and strategic leads in England should consider in order to help prevent falls and fractures in older people. It has been produced by the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group (NFPCG), which was set up with the aim of coordinating falls prevention activity in England and encourage ‘whole-system’ local commissioning for falls prevention. It highlights interventions which cover the whole of the patient pathway, from risk reduction to providing care for older people who have suffered injury following a fall. These include risk reduction, risk assessment, strength and balance exercise programmes, healthy homes, and interventions in high-risk care environments such a hospitals, care and nursing homes. It also explains how commissioning for falls and fracture prevention involves working across the health, social care and housing sectors. It provides advice on how falls prevention can be supported at all stages of the commissioning cycle, including - assessing needs, designing services, sourcing providers, delivering to service users, monitoring and evaluation, and in the governance frameworks that oversee and assure this activity. It also sets out the future commitments of the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
falls, prevention, intervention, older people, commissioning, injuries, risk assessment;
Location(s):
England
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