DAY 1 of #FallsAwarenessWeek Webinar Series

Walking Stick Health Check Week

On Tuesday, 20 September, Paul Mills will lead a session on ‘Walking Stick Health Check Week – an idea is born’.

Title: Walking Stick Health Check Week
Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour

Paul Mills works in Cardiac Rehabilitation for Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is the brains behind a local campaign to keep people safe, ‘Walking Stick Health Check Week’ - This year, it will be 14 – 18 November 2022.

Paul has teamed up with some local shops, pharmacies and physiotherapy departments to engage the public to check for worn-out ferrules and either replace or direct people to where they can obtain or buy a new one. This conversation in itself creates an opportunity to talk about other falls prevention interventions and local physical activity opportunities, and they find it a successful approach.

Professor Brian Dolan
OBE, FFNMRCSI, FRSA, MSc (Oxon), MSc (Nurs), RN

Professor Brian Dolan has a near 40-year career as a clinician, academic, educator, senior leader and innovator. His interests and roles have focused on health systems reform, patient flow, clinical redesign, leadership and cultural change.

With a clinical background in both mental health and emergency nursing, he is Director of an award-winning consultancy (Health Service 360, UK) and works in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. He also has a long-term contract with Canterbury District Health Board, NZ as Director of Service Improvement and is currently co-leading the I-CARE leadership programme for 125 nurse unit managers and 30 nurse leaders in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network.

Brian is Visiting Professor of Nursing at the Oxford Institute for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research (OxINMAHR) and Honorary Professor of Leadership in Healthcare, Salford University. He has authored >70 papers and seven books, mainly on emergency nursing and leadership.

In 2018, he was voted one of the top 20 most influential people in the history of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. In the 2019 ‘New Year’s Honours List’, Her Majesty the Queen appointed him Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ‘For services to nursing and emergency care’. Also in 2019, he was elected Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Last year, he and Lynda Holt, Chief Executive Officer of Health Service 360, co-hosted the 72-hour #EndPJParalysis Global Online Summit—in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST), NHS Horizons, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, #everyBODYmoves, and Safer Care Victoria in Australia.