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Change Management Supports

Quality Improvement Education In May 2013, the National Leadership and Innovation Programme for Nursing and Midwifery ONMSD launched a “Falls” collaborative education programme focusing on falls prevention in health and social care settings within HSE West Administrative Area. This programme can be seen as an enabler for AFFINITY in that it will help commence falls prevention and bone health initiatives or can be used as an enhancer for those teams that already have falls prevention initiatives in place. The “Falls” collaborative programme uses the validated quality improvement methodologies of the Institute of Health Care Improvement (IHI) Break Through Series and offered Free enrolment. Work is also being progressed on identifying other education and learning interventions such as a training needs analysis survey, quality improvement supports and e-learning packages.


Health Intelligence provides advices, facilitation and change/project management supports to enable AFFINITY to meet its aims and objectives and realise its potential. Read more.

Web-based Repository/Communications Hub The aim is to promote clear, consistent and timely communication of relevance, across the system, to the National Falls and Bone Health Implementation Project AFFINITY. It is envisaged that this portal will share news updates and key information on

  1. Governance Arrangements and Actions;
  2. The Integrated Service Delivery Model;
  3. “Best of Breed” policies, procedures, guidelines and tools;
  4. Web links to sentinel websites and other key resources
All contributions to the Repository are welcome and will be considered for inclusion. In particular it would be helpful to identify more Useful Links and evidence informed guidance/tools/pathways not already included in the repository.




E-learning E Learning supports developed in other jurisdictions, in addition to our own, will be posted to help build competency and capability within the system. Opportunities will be afforded to the system as a whole to share their “best of breed” resources to support the implementation of the National Strategy. Other initiatives of national and international import that are related to falls and bone health will be identified and shared on the AFFINITY web portal.