Make Home Accident Prevention Everybody

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Make Home Accident Prevention Everybodys
Business!
Ita McErlean, Manager RoSPA NI
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Attendances at AE (2000)
AE Attendances 2000
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The Accident Problem in NI

• 71,736 people attended AE
• 9,042 people were admitted,
• total of 54,704 nights in hospital
• 77 people died

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Who is most at Risk?

• Under 5s
• Older people (65)
• Travellers
• Lower socio economic groups
• Males
• Single parent families

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Children in Northern Ireland

• On average 1 child in 12 will be treated for a
  home accident, each year
• ½ of those treated will be under 4
• Boys are more likely to have an accident than
  girls
• Children are more likely to revisit AE following
  another accident

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Over 65s in Northern Ireland

• 15 of population
• 40 of all emergency admissions
• 66 of all hospital patients (for other health
  reasons)

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Government Approach

Investing for Health Strategy 2002 Home
Accident Prevention Strategy 2004 - 2009
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Local Approach

• Home Accident Prevention NI Local Groups (22
  across NI)
• Investing for Health Partnerships across the 4
  Board Areas.
• Home Safety Officers

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Last six months
Secured funding for next 3 years with
DHSSPS Recruited new Home Safety team Web based
database project Training provided to a range of
health practitioners Support to HAP NI (Home
Accident Prevention NI ) Identifying and
establishing new partnerships
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Meet Connie and Alex
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GRANGE PRIMARY SCHOOLNewry

• Local practitioners trained to deliver key
  messages about home accident prevention to
  primary school children using puppets.

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Reaction to the puppets
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Adults can have fun too!
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A final thought..

• By this evening In Northern Ireland
• Almost 200 people will have attended AE
• 5 older people will have been admitted
  
  
  
• to hospital because of a fall.
• 2 of these will never return home.