Posted By Martin R. Bessant Hi Steve, Happy New Year. Before retirement, when I was working for the community trust, we had an acute care of the elderly ward where patients often "fell" without injury. Our policy was to log them as a patient incident rather than accident if there was no obvious cause. Obviously a slip on a wet floor was an accident but we had several patients who were unsteady and liable to collapse without warning. If no injuries were found, then it was logged in their medical notes and a record kept on the Patient Incident system in the health and safety office. I also used to send quarterly reports to the relevant wards and managers of the numbers involved, so that they could ensure that their risk management procedures were adequate. Hope this helps, Martin.

Posted By Gavin Barr Hi Steve. I would call this a near miss, "an event that occured which could have had the potential to caused harm or damage". Although it was an accident that they fell out of bed. I can't imagine they fell on purpose. Cheers Gavin