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“The effective management of older patients with fragility fractures of the femur remains central to modern trauma care… Each year in the UK around 80,000 over-60-year-olds sustain a hip fracture, so this injury is simultaneously the main challenge to trauma services, and an ideal model with which to examine, understand and improve their quality… The NHFD provides annual reports that provide a national picture of hip fracture and in particular highlight huge variation in practice between hospitals.”
The National Hip Fracture Database: lessons learned and future horizons, February 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mporth.2024.01.007
This important and timely conference will focus on improving care for hip fracture patients – learning from the NHFD findings, and improving progress against the Key Performance Indicators and 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. This 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 aft er surgery. There is a focus on improving practice against the Key Performance Indicators and using a Quality Improvement (QI) approach.
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 improving practice against the Key Performance Indicators, using a Quality Improvement (QI) approach, and managing Hip Fracture in Covid positive patients.
“The most dramatic observation in 2022 was that over 7,000 people had a hip fracture in December, far higher than the average of 5,500 per month in recent years. The 72,160 hip fractures that the NHFD recorded in 2022 contrast with totals of under 66,000 in 2020 and 2021, and 67,000 prior to the pandemic”
The National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD): 15 years of quality improvement, Sept 2023
“Hip fracture is the commonest reason for an older person to need admission to hospital for emergency surgery.”.......“Patients have the best chance of recovery if they are cared for on a ward where a hip fracture team can work together, rather than separately. “
The National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD): 15 years of quality improvement, Sept 2023
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 which will be released just prior to the event in September 2024
Update your knowledge on national developments
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)
Identify key strategies for improving the anaesthetic and surgical care pathway for hip fracture
Using Quality Improvement to improve Hip Fracture care
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
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