Policies, Guidelines and Standards

National Guidelines

Click on the links below to access the National Best Practice Guidelines  for Falls Prevention (2009), including links to Guidebooks, Implementation Guides and Fact Sheets.

• Hospitals
• Residential Aged Care Facilities 
• Community Care 

Standards

All Public Health Services and Private Hospitals are required to be accredited under the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard 10 – Preventing falls and harm from falls.  See:
http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/accreditation/nsqhss/

SA Health Policy Directive, guideline and toolkit

For SA Health services please refer to the Safety and Quality website page Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls.