Falls are everyone's problem.

Thank you for looking at this before anyone else. You're a small group whose judgement we trust, and your feedback will shape how we build the rest.

We know structured falls programs work. We came away from the Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference in Sydney last November with two convictions: that falls prevention is everyone's responsibility, and that education is central to it. But education only makes a difference once it reaches the people involved. So we set out to build education for everyone with a part to play, whether patient, family or staff member, that any ward or facility could actually put to use: grounded in national best-practice guidelines, equitable by design, and ready in any language.

BedEducation is designed to work alongside the formal programs, never in place of them: short video modules that build falls awareness across everyone around the bed. So much of falls prevention comes down to small but important things — a call bell left within reach, a clear floor, a safe environment — the kind of things anyone passing a bed can notice and act on. It's why we have deliberately included the non-clinical staff who are rarely the focus of falls education: the porters, cleaners, ward and kitchen assistants and volunteers who pass beds throughout the day, alongside patients and their families.

Delivered as video, the modules are inexpensive to produce, consistent every time, accessible on any screen, and able to be translated into any language. That low production cost is deliberate: it lets us keep BedEducation equitable — within reach of every ward, facility and family, so that no one is left without.

BedEducation is built for two settings — hospitals and residential aged care — with separate videos for each. Six are ready to watch in draft: four for hospitals (a summary, a patient module, one for relatives, and one for non-clinical staff) and two for aged care (a resident module and one for relatives). Further videos are in development, each outlined on the next page. These are drafts, so what we'd appreciate is your feedback on the substance: whether it is accurate, whether the tone is right, and what is missing.