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This important and timely conference will focus on improving care for hip fracture patients – learning from the September 2024 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, patient experience 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, improve patient experience of hip fracture care, overcome 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 and using a Quality Improvement (QI) approach at each stage in the hip fracture pathway

This conference focuses on Prehabilitation – Principles and Practice and offers a comprehensive and practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit and optimised for surgery. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest trends, evidence-based practices, and strategies to optimise patient outcomes within the NHS. The conference will look at preoperative optimisation of patients’ fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support, integrating prehabilitation into the care pathway, the relationship between prehabilitation and sleep, as well as behaviour change, and also how to measure the outcomes of prehabilitation. Throughout the day, there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience.