FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00808
- Request Date
- February 9, 2016
- Subject
- Falls Prevention/monitors
- Description
Please could I request the following information:
- Which hospitals in the trust have the following wards:
Elderly Care
Stroke
Dementia
Names:_______________________________________________________
2. What are your published figures for reported in-patient falls for the period January 2013 – December 2015?
Year 2013:__________________ Year 2014:___________________ Year 2015: _______________
3. Do any of the hospitals within the trust use any of the following (please state which product for which hospital):
Turun TABS Falls Monitor
Alert-It
Sensorcare Bed Systems
Other (please name_________________)4. Has there been a significant number of false alarms with any of the falls prevention devices?
Turun TABS Falls Monitor yes/no
Alert-It yes/no
Sensorcare Bed Systems yes/no
Other yes/no
If significant, is the hospital/s still using the equipment?
Yes No
5. Has there been any reported issues of pressure sores/bed sores due to using any of the falls prevention devices?
Turun TABS Falls Monitor Severe Average Minor
Alert-It Severe Average Minor
Sensorcare Bed Systems Severe Average Minor
Other Severe Average Minor
6. What is the name of the Ward Manager/s of the ward/s that use the falls prevention device? _________________________________
7. What named type of beds are used in the ward/s that the falls monitor is used on?________________________________________
- Response
- Elderly Care: Clifton Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Stroke: Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Dementia: Clifton Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Please note patients may have dementia and other co-morbidities
- Year 2013: 1840
Year 2014: 1740
Year 2015: 1544
These figures are for all harms, including negligible/low
- Turun TABS Falls Monitor – yes, for Blackpool Victoria Hospital and Clifton Hospital
Alert-It – no
Sensorcare Bed Systems – no
Other (please name_________________)- Turun TABS Falls Monitor Yes
Alert-It n/a
Sensorcare Bed Systems n/a
Other n/a
If significant, is the hospital/s still using the equipment?
Yes
- Turun TABS Falls Monitor No
Alert-It n/a
Sensorcare Bed Systems n/a
Other n/a
- Trust contact is Assistant Director of Nursing & Quality
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