Nellie Travis

During the course of the evidence was told that there is a Falls Risk Assessment tool used by the hospital; but in this case it had been completed and assessed by a 'bank nurse' who was not an employee of the Trust: The evidence given by the senior member of the nursing staff was to the effect that the operation of the Falls Risk Assessment Tool is very subjective and depends upon an individual opinion of the nurse completing it as to how high the falls risk is shown to be. It was agreed that such a document is of very little use at all and that a more objectively assessed tool needs to be adopted.