Acute care

NHS failing on falls prevention

By 2009-03-24T11:35:00

A minority of NHS commissioning organisations are following guidelines to reduce the number of older people who need to attend hospital due to a fall.

The Royal College of Physicians has uncovered a discrepancy between what NHS organisations have told the Healthcare Commission about falls prevention and what really goes on.

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