FoI Number
2025-103
Subject
Patient Falls
Date Received
13/05/2025
Request and Response

For each calendar year from 2019 to 2025 (most recent):

 

  1. The total number of incidents where a patient fall is reported, broken down by hospital

Year

Number of Patient Falls

2019

76

2020

61

2021

74

2022

83

2023

68

2024

62

2025 (01/01/2025 – 14/05/2025)

42

Total

466

This is done by calendar year and we only have one inpatient hospital, The Gilbert Bain, Lerwick