Presentation by Safe Steps at ECO 20: Empowering care homes through innovation and improvement on Wednesday 25 September at Liverpool Hotel Hilton.

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
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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
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6. £2.3 bn
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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