Falls Awareness Week 2024
Webinar Series

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our 2024 Falls Awareness Week webinar series!

We would especially like to thank our expert speakers who delivered some fantastic sessions, offering valuable insights and perspectives to help us overcome the challenges we face every day:

  • Professor Brian Dolan OBE (Director, Health Service 360)
  • Julie Windsor (Clinical Lead Medical Specialties & Older People, National Patient Safety Team
    NHS England)
  • Liz Bristow, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Nicola Beeston-Davies, Royal National Institute of Blind People, Eye Care Liaison Officer Gloucestershire Hospitals & Gloucestershire Community NHST

#ThinkFalls #BeFallsPrepared

The PowerPoint presentations from our webinar sessions and complete recordings are available. In addition, you can download a certificate of attendance for each session. Below, you can find information and access links.

Click here

to visit Medline’s new Falls Prevention webpage. You can find information on our Stand FIRM programme and gain access to our training resources in our knowledge base.


You made it! Now what?

Professor Brian Dolan, OBE, Director, Health Service 360,


 ‘Seeing Falls Differently - Development of an Inpatient Eye Care Liaison Officer Vision Assessment and Liaison Service’

  • Julie Windsor (Clinical Lead Medical Specialties & Older People, National Patient Safety Team
    NHS England)
  • Liz Bristow, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Nicola Beeston-Davies, Royal National Institute of Blind People, Eye Care Liaison Officer Gloucestershire Hospitals & Gloucestershire Community NHST

Join the Falls Prevention Network

This network is open to everyone passionate about preventing falls in acute, community and care settings. The network hosts sessions during which members can discuss and share best practices. Members also benefit from a closed email group where they can ask each other for help.

There are already 800+ members in the network, and this continues to grow each week.

Join today!