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Today's Chair:
Prof Cameron Swift
Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician, Kings School of Medicine
Chair, NICE Guideline Development Group for Hip Fracture (CG124)
Lead/specialist, Participation Quality Standard Development
Member, NHFD Advisory Committee
Hip Fracture Care and Covid-19: Lessons Learned
Dr Louis Koizia
Consultant Geriatrician
Imperial College NHS Trust
• how do we ensure safety for the frail elderly in our hospitals
• managing patients with hip fracture and Covid-19
• minimising delays to theatre due to medical complications
• lessons learned from the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit
Improving Hip Fracture Care and Outcomes
Prof Cameron Swift
Emeritus Professor, Consultant Physician, Kings School of Medicine
Chair, NICE Guideline Development Group for Hip Fracture (CG124)
Lead/specialist, Participation Quality Standard Development
Member, NHFD Advisory Committee
• learning from the national database and implementing improvement at a local level
• key recommendations from the National Hip Fracture Database
• monitoring adherence to the NICE Quality Standard: what’s working well and what’s not?
• identifying variation in length of stay for Hip Fractures
• monitoring the impact in your service
• ensuring that the clinical leadership is in place to deliver and audit high-quality care
EXTENDED SESSION: Using National Audit to improve Hip Fracture Care Locally
Dr Konrad Wronka
Hip Fracture Lead Consultant
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• meeting the NHFD Key Performance Indicators
• how do you convince your board to give the highest priority to hip fracture patients?
• ensuring the sicker, older, frailer patients are at the top of the surgical list
• how we have reduced delays in surgical operations as a result of avoidable
inefficiencies in preoperative planning or in the organisation of theatre lists
• impact of Covid-19: changing practice
• using audit data to monitor care and prompt change
• using RCA to investigate and understand causes of breaches
• teamwork and implementation
• evaluating the impact of service change