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This important and timely conference will focus on improving care for hip fracture patients – learning from the NHFD findings and October 2021 report, and improving progress against the NICE quality standard for hip fracture. Through national updates and practical cases studies the conference will highlight best practice in hip fracture care, improving the care pathway and outcomes. The conference will focus on improving assessment, minimised delays to theatre, improving the pathway from falls to theatre changing the role of the emergency department, ensuring hip fracture patients are prioritised for surgery, overcoming contra indications, improving the anaesthetic and surgical pathway, and ensuring prompt mobilisation after surgery. There is a focus on managing Hip Fracture in Covid positive patients. The October 2021 NHFD report found that 30-day mortality was three times higher for patients with COVID-19 than seen in those without the infection. There is also a focus on secondary hip fracture prevention.
“Hip fractures represent a global public health challenge, and the impact of COVID-19 is likely to endure in all healthcare systems for the foreseeable future.”
“COVID-19 has had notable effects on the hip fracture care service: hip fracture rates increased significantly... Elderly patients with hip fractures are a particularly vulnerable group during the pandemic… Despite national lockdown and traffic restrictions, the number of older patients with hip fractures significantly increased”
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 October 2021
- Update your knowledge on national developments and reflect on the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the practicalities of treating Covid Positive patients
- Reflect on how can we get this patient to surgery? Understanding and reducing medical complications, avoidable inefficiencies and unacceptable reasons for delaying theatre
- Identify key strategies for improving the anaesthetic and surgical care pathway for hip fracture
- Understand on how you can improve care for Hip Fracture patients beyond the hospital setting
- Develop practical strategies for assessing, reducing, recognising and treating delirium and confusion
- Improve physiotherapy rehabilitation after hip fracture: ensuring prompt mobilisation after surgery
- Reduce mortality in the fractured neck of femur pathway
- 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
100% of delegates who attended our last event would reccomend this to a colleague
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