This important and timely conference will focus on improving care and outcomes for hip fracture patients, learning from the latest National Hip Fracture Database findings and supporting progress against NICE guidance and quality standards. The 2025 NHFD Annual Report, Room for improvement: hip fracture care in 2024, demonstrates that although hip fracture care has improved over time, unacceptable variation remains in access to the right ward, timely surgery, mobilisation, rehabilitation, bone protection and recovery. The conference will also reflect on the forthcoming 2026 NHFD findings.
The conference will focus on practical improvement across the whole hip fracture pathway: fast-track admission from the emergency department, reducing delays to theatre, improving surgical decision-making and senior supervision, ensuring full weight-bearing where possible, improving early mobilisation and seven-day rehabilitation, strengthening orthogeriatric leadership, improving patient and family experience, and preventing further fragility fractures through nutrition, bone protection and falls prevention.
The programme will also consider the implications of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and the shift from hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention. For hip fracture services this means better use of NHFD data, stronger board-level governance, improved links with community rehabilitation and fracture liaison services, and a renewed focus on prevention, recovery and independence.
With the NHFD expanding to include pelvic ring fracture data from 2026, and GIRFT highlighting the need for equitable care for people with non-ambulatory fragility fractures, this conference will also look beyond neck of femur fracture to consider how learning from hip fracture pathways can improve care for older people living with frailty across orthopaedic trauma services.
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