Fife Falls Response Service is a service operated by Fife Health and Social Care Partnership for people who fall in their own home.
If you have fallen and need help, then please do one of the following:
Fife Falls is only accessed through your GP surgery or NHS 24, if you have a community alarm, please activate this to request help.
We will ask a few simple questions about you over the phone. If you are not hurt, we will send the specially trained falls response team (MECS) to assist you by using the lifting equipment. The MECS team is not medically trained and is not a replacement for the emergency services.
The service is available to people who:
If you are hurt, then we will contact the emergency services.
We will contact your emergency contact to sit with you until help arrives.