Improving Hip Fracture Care

The Nuffield Trust has published Focus on hip fracture which explores the quality of care and outcomes of treatment for hip fracture, drawing on 10 years’ of hospital inpatient activity data.

See also the latest National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) report.  You may also find the following documents useful:

• NHS Institute’s Focus on: Fractured Neck of Femur and Fractured Neck of Femur facts.
• Hip Quality Improvement Programme
• Creating exceptional patient experience in hip fracture care
• Fractured neck of femur - rapid improvement programme
• Improving Care for Hip Fracture Patients in WA
• Improving hip fracture care by using the Bone and Joint Canada toolkit to reduce delays and improve clinical processes for an aging population