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This important and timely conference will focus on improving care and outcomes for hip fracture patients, learning from the latest National Hip Fracture Database findings and supporting progress against NICE guidance and quality standards. The 2025 NHFD Annual Report, Room for improvement: hip fracture care in 2024, demonstrates that although hip fracture care has improved over time, unacceptable variation remains in access to the right ward, timely surgery, mobilisation, rehabilitation, bone protection and recovery. The conference will also reflect on the forthcoming 2026 NHFD findings.
The conference will focus on practical improvement across the whole hip fracture pathway: fast-track admission from the emergency department, reducing delays to theatre, improving surgical decision-making and senior supervision, ensuring full weight-bearing where possible, improving early mobilisation and seven-day rehabilitation, strengthening orthogeriatric leadership, improving patient and family experience, and preventing further fragility fractures through nutrition, bone protection and falls prevention.
The programme will also consider the implications of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and the shift from hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention. For hip fracture services this means better use of NHFD data, stronger board-level governance, improved links with community rehabilitation and fracture liaison services, and a renewed focus on prevention, recovery and independence.
With the NHFD expanding to include pelvic ring fracture data from 2026, and GIRFT highlighting the need for equitable care for people with non-ambulatory fragility fractures, this conference will also look beyond neck of femur fracture to consider how learning from hip fracture pathways can improve care for older people living with frailty across orthopaedic trauma services.
“Each year over 70,000 people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have a hip fracture – and this figure could double by 2060.”
National Hip Fracture Database Annual Report 2025
“Patients spent an average of 15 hours waiting before they were made comfortable in a bed, on a ward appropriate to their needs.”
National Hip Fracture Database Annual Report 2025
“For patients with a fragility hip or femoral fractures, care needs to be quickly and carefully organised to prepare them for surgery. The most positive outcomes can be achieved by quickly stabilising patients and ensuring that expert clinical teams respond to their frail conditions and complex needs. Equally, the care that these patients receive following surgery is just as important, because it is in the initial days following surgery that the greatest gains can be made in patient outcomes.”
NHS England, Guidance on Best Practice Tariffs 2025/26
“Perform surgery on the day of, or the day after, admission.”
NICE Guideline CG124, Hip fracture: management
This conference will enable you to:
Network with fellow delegates working to improve services for Hip Fracture
Learn from the highest performing trusts in the UK as recognised by the National Hip Fracture Database
Understand and reflect on how you can improve practice, outcomes and reduce mortality locally as a result of NHFD findings released in September 2025
Update your knowledge on national developments
Understand the implications of the 10 year plan for health, and neighbourhood health for Hip Fracture care
Improve the patient experience of hip fracture care
Reduce variation and improve practice against the Key Performance Indicators
Reflect on how can we get this patient to surgery? Understanding and reducing medical complications, avoidable inefficiencies and unacceptable reasons for delaying theatre (including delays out of hours and at weekends)
Embed fast-tracking of hip fracture patients into emergency care
Identify key strategies for improving the anaesthetic and surgical care pathway for hip fracture
Using Quality Improvement strategies to improve Hip Fracture care
Develop practical strategies for assessing, reducing, recognising and treating delirium and confusion
Improve physiotherapy rehabilitation after hip fracture: ensuring prompt mobilisation after surgery
Optimise discharge and community rehabilitation
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
