20,800 hospital admissions in England over a 12 month period were for people recorded as having a fall involving a bed, figures from The NHS Information Centre have shown.
Between March 2010 and February 2011, provisionally, there were also 12,000 admissions for people who had falls involving chairs; 6,400 admissions for people falling on or from ladders; 1,200 admissions for people falling out of trees; and 170 admissions for people falling from cliffs.