Agenda and supporting papers - Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Item 8
Falls
The essence of care audit assesses the following:
• Compliance with Morse assessment
• Compliance with up-to-date EPUAP assessment
Analysis/Action - This suggests that assessments of risks of falls are being undertaken on a
reliable basis. However, if does not tell us how these risk assessments have informed the
care plan or if the correct preventative measures have been put in place to reduce the risk of
falls in hospital. The Safe Care Group will consider a paper in July proposing a revised
approach to measurement (outcome focussed) and a re-launch of the Falls reduction
package across our wards.
Nutrition & Hydration
The essence of care audit assesses the following:
• Compliance with MUST assessment
• Where needed has a food chart been completed?
Analysis/Action - The newly formed Nutrition task and finish will review all feedback
regarding nutrition and develop an improvement plan to address patient feedback results,
reduce patient complaints and improve use of MUST assessment. The question in the local
inpatient survey will also be revised to ensure that vulnerable patients are being asked the
question; the current results indicate that the wrong patients are being asked if they received
help and thus the giving false assurance.
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