We are about to introduce a Specialist Falls Practitioner as part of the Falls Prevention Scheme within the Older People and Frailty Transformation Programme. This will be a primary care resource who will be based within primary care and will work directly with practices to proactively identify, manage, and support those individuals identified by the practice as being at risk of falls and in need of a more specialist / detailed review to help reduce the risk of recurrent or future falls.
In the first instance, the Primary Care Falls Practitioner will be for Havering based EMIS practices only whilst the pathway is honed.
If there are any Havering based EMIS practices that would be keen to accommodate the falls practitioner at their surgery (clinic room space required), from which telephone triage and face-to-face assessments can be carried out, then please contact Kerrie.soares@nhs.net
Further information can found in the BHR Falls Prevention Scheme.
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