Understanding Falls Risk, Prevention and Negligence in Healthcare

Understanding Falls Risk, Prevention and Negligence in Healthcare
Based on INNEG’s January 2026 webinar: When a Fall Becomes a Claim

This guide was produced by INNEG and is based on key clinical insights shared during our January 2026 webinar When a Fall Becomes a Claim, featuring Glenn Smith, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Medico Legal Expert.

It is intended to support solicitors in understanding common medico-legal decision points in fall-related injury claims and does not constitute clinical guidance or expert opinion on any individual case.

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Falls claims rarely turn on the fact that a fall occurred. Instead, liability is shaped by how risk was identified, managed, reviewed, and documented - and whether the clinical reasoning behind those decisions can withstand retrospective scrutiny.

This eBook, based exclusively on insights shared by Glenn Smith during INNEG’s January 2026 webinar, examines the recurring decision points that frequently determine breach, causation, and defensibility in falls litigation. From failures to translate risk assessments into meaningful care, unmanaged environmental hazards, and inappropriate use of bed rails, to missed medication risks, capacity assumptions, supervision decisions, and inadequate post-fall reviews, each section highlights where otherwise routine care can begin to unravel.

Written for solicitors, the guide provides a structured framework for analysing nursing and care records, identifying evidential gaps, and understanding how decisions around supervision, restriction, autonomy, and reassessment are later examined in claims and inquests.

This practical, solicitor-focused eBook supports early case assessment, helps identify high-risk decision points, and enables more confident expert instruction by focusing not on theory, but on what the records reveal - and what they often fail to show.

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