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This important and timely conference will focus on improving care for hip fracture patients – learning from the NHFD findings and September 2022 report, 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.
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.
“A broken hip or ‘hip fracture’ is a serious injury, which each year in the UK leads to around 75,000 people needing hospital admission, surgery and anaesthesia, followed by weeks of rehabilitation in hospital and the community. Since the injury typically affects older people, it is a particular challenge for those with pre-existing physical and mental health problems”
“Despite attempts to reduce temporal variation, an ‘evening’ and ‘weekend’ effect still exists, providing impetus for more attention to be paid to these times of presentation”
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 2022
- 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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