Safe Steps - ECO 20: Empowering care homes through innovation and improvement
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Presentation by Safe Steps at ECO 20: Empowering care homes through innovation and improvement on Wednesday 25 September at Liverpool Hotel Hilton.
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Safe Steps - ECO 20: Empowering care homes through innovation and improvement
- 1. Preventing falls, improving lives www.safesteps.tech @SafeStepsTech
- 2. Our mission is to improve older people's lives by reducing the number of preventable falls across the UK @SafeStepsTech
- 3. 6 older people fall every minute across the UK @SafeStepsTech
- 4. “A fall can have a devastating effect on an older person, bringing physical consequences and associated loneliness, isolation and loss of independence” Errol Taylor, CEO Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents @SafeStepsTech
- 5. A&E admissions to reach 1000 people a day by 2020 @SafeStepsTech
- 7. Digital falls prevention app - built to NHS Digital standards Helps reduce the risk of falls and learn from when falls do occur Clinical decision-making tool providing advice and support to professional health & care teams Digital innovation to reduce falls @SafeStepsTech
- 8. Measures 12 key risk factors
- 9. “Risk assessment followed by appropriate interventions can reduce patient falls by up to 25 to 30%” Prevention rather than cure
- 10. ● Provides a full multifactorial risk assessment - enabling early identification of risks ● Creates a personalised action plan (from 50+ proven interventions) to reduce those risks ● Tracks actions and interventions to prevent falls ● Collects evidence of falls when they do occur - to drive continuous improvement ● Creates a digital audit trail to satisfy regulatory inspection requirements (Health & Social Care Act 2008) Features
- 11. Real-time analytics provide actionable insights for healthcare professionals - Falls - Risks - Outcomes Tools for commissioners
- 12. Our partners
- 13. 5,243 Risk screenings 98 Health & Care Organisations 30% Reduction in falls 1,435 Older people being screened
- 14. Preventing falls, improving lives www.safesteps.tech @SafeStepsTech
Editor's Notes
- For the couple of years, this has become my sole mission…..
- Not just my nan When you look across the UK this is a massive issue This stat comes from Age UK and is something that will no doubt have impacted someone we have loved, known or cared for... We are all getting older - hands up if...
- A fall can lead to many different outcomes. In the most extreme cases it can lead to death, however thankfully this is only a relatively small %. The majority of falls may appear relatively minor or non serious, however the cumulative impact can not be underestimated Loneliness, lack of confidence, fear, isolation, mental health issues, loss of independance, gradual decline…...all made more likely by the fact that once you suffer that first fall then you are at a much higher risk of falling again...
- So is falling just an inevitable consequence of getting older?
- The average cost of a fall is £7,500 - taking into account ambulances, A&E, hip operations, physio, rehabilitation. When you add that up across 1 year in the UK, this is costing