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Edinburgh’s Integrated Whole System Approach to Falls Prevention

13:30 – 14:45

This session highlights Edinburgh HSCP’s transformation of its falls prevention pathway, developed through a 2.5-year, whole-system collaboration. By bringing together health, social care, leisure, and digital partners, the programme redesigned services to shift from reactive care to prevention.

The new approach integrates consistent screening, unified assessment, targeted interventions, and community-based activity programmes, supported by workforce development and digital tools. Early results show reduced emergency attendances and fractures, improving outcomes and system efficiency. The session will share key learning, impact, and how this scalable model can be replicated across other areas.

Speakers

Hannah Cairns

Hannah Cairns

Chief Allied Health Professional, Edinburgh HSCP / NHS Lothian

As Chief Allied Health Professional for Edinburgh, Hannah provides strategic leadership across the AHP workforce, drawing on her background as an Occupational Therapist and her commitment to service innovation, redesign and quality improvement.
Claire Craig

Claire Craig

Health & Wellbeing Manager, Edinburgh Leisure

Claire Craig is a Physical Activity and Wellbeing professional with over 20 years’ experience overseeing the development and delivery of programmes that improve population health and wellbeing.
Matthew Curl

Matthew Curl

Corporate Strategic Lead Digital, Edinburgh HSCP / NHS Lothian

Matthew has worked in the NHS for 20 years, starting as a physiotherapist in Medicine of the Elderly at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Kirsty Lambert

Kirsty Lambert

AHP Clinical Lead for Falls Prevention / Consultant Physiotherapist, Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership / NHS Lothian

Kirsty is the newly appointed Clinical Lead for Falls Prevention within Edinburgh HSCP.