How Steady On Your Feet aligns with the 2025 NICE guidelines on falls prevention
Published on: 18th May 2025
Published on: 18th May 2025
The latest NICE guidelines on falls prevention call for a clear shift away from risk scoring tools and towards early, personalised support that helps people understand their risks and take action. Steady On Your Feet is already helping NHS organisations and local authorities put that into practice.
Falls remain one of the most common and costly issues facing our ageing population. NICE recommends a more proactive approach: empowering people with accessible information, supporting self-assessment, and providing tailored interventions based on individual needs, not just clinical thresholds.
Steady On Your Feet delivers just that. Our locally branded, evidence-led digital platform supports people 50 and over and at risk of falls to stay active, healthy and independent for longer. Through a clinically developed self-assessment, users can explore key risk factors like strength, balance, or home hazards, and generate their own personal action plan. That plan can be printed, shared with carers or professionals, and revisited to manage their progress. It’s simple, reassuring and practical — turning prevention into everyday action.
For NHS services and local authorities, Steady On Your Feet offers a single, central resource that complements clinical care, supports professional referrals, and provides data-driven insights into local need and measurable patient outcomes. This proactive approach reflects NICE's push to identify risk in routine appointments, not just post-fall treatment settings. It also aligns well with the Making Every Contact Count approach.
Kathryn Hodgson, Clinical Lead for Falls and Fracture Liaison Services from South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“Our Steady On Your Feet website is at the heart of our integrated pathway. The website and communication campaign aims to increase confidence in older people by offering helpful advice, guidance and online risk-assessments as well as lots of simple, practical tips to help them stay active, independent and safe. Older people now have greater access to falls prevention resources across the area to suit their own needs. This is ensuring the specialist falls team now sees only those with the most complex falls history.”
Now live across regions including South Tees, Cheshire, Devon, Northamptonshire, Cambridge, Peterborough and North Yorkshire, Steady On Your Feet is a trusted, collaborative resource used by NHS trusts, local authorities and community partners to deliver the kind of proactive, personalised care NICE calls for. This includes:
Throughout the UK, over 20,000 people have used our innovative platform, with 4,250 completing personal self-assessments. Based on feedback from end users, the impact is powerful:
Users are also feeding back how the platform is helping them proactively make changes to reduce their risk of falls. One person said:
“I found the information provided about fall risks to be very helpful. I have taken several steps in my house to help me prevent a major fall accident. I am very happy to have found and reviewed your website.”
With NICE highlighting the importance of early intervention, self-management and supporting people before a crisis, Steady On Your Feet is driving an important shift. These stories reflect what the guidelines advocate: real engagement, practical support, and timely information that empowers people to stay active, healthy and independent for longer.
As falls prevention moves upstream in national policy, Steady On Your Feet is helping turn strategy into everyday action in communities across the UK.
Visit www.steadyonyourfeet.org to explore the platform or find out how it could support your local approach to falls prevention.
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If you would like more information about our falls prevention platform and the work we're doing with NHS trusts and local authorities across the UK, or to arrange a demonstration for your falls steering group, please get in touch with our team.