CWTCH in the community: Improving education to reduce adverse outcomes for patients who fall in nursing homes.

Falls in nursing homes (NH) are common and cause significant morbidity and mortality. We proposed that by improving staff education, the volume of emergency calls, hospital conveyance and adverse patient outcomes could be reduced. An analysis of the volume of emergency calls coded as Falls from January 2020 to February 2022, with 4907 calls in total, 866 were falls (17.

Prescribe, Review, Now!: an assessment of adequate PRN analgesia and associated laxative prescribing using Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA).

Introduction: On HEPMA there is no way to notify a prescriber if patients are regularly accessing PRN (as-required) analgesia. We aimed to assess how well PRN analgesia use is identified, the WHO analgesic ladder and whether laxatives were prescribed with opioid analgesia.

Methods: 3 data collection cycles were carried out for all medical inpatients between February-April 2022.