Falls are serious safety risks that often lead to injury. For older people a fall can mean loss of independence and a reduced quality of life. Preventing falls is essential to every care setting to support the wellbeing of older people and the delivery of high‑quality, person‑centred care.

This issue includes items on sepsis, a draft Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard, mental health, falls prevention, and more.  Along with the latest from the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Also included are the latest from the WHO and the UK’s NICE...

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals (Falls Guidelines for Hospitals) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in hospital settings.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in the community and at home as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Residential Aged Care Services (Falls Guidelines for RACS) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in residential aged care settings.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Community Care in Australia (Falls Guidelines for Community Care) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in community care settings.

This issue includes items on the updated Preventing falls and harm from falls best practice in older people: Best Practice Guidelines, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), audit and feedback, prevention, patient-centred care, partnering with consumers, intimate partner violence, and more. Along with the latest from Clinical...

This issue includes items on the consultation for the Falls in older people guidelines, the Patient Safety Principles from the Patient Safety Commissioner for England, patient experience, diagnostic excellence, hospital-acquired complications (HACs), learning health systems, incentives, adverse events, and more.  Also covered are the...