Speakers
Professor Antony Johansen
External Organisation
Collaborative care of frail and older trauma patients – a Multidisciplinary Team study day
The whole-day session will use case-studies to stimulate MDT debate, along with update lectures on key topics, a review of the new published NHFS annual report, and discussion of the BOA’s work on quality and NHFD-GIRFT work to extend the high quality care offered to people with hip fracture to those with other injuries such as pelvic fracture.
Course leader: Antony Johansen and Bob Handley
Bob Handley
Future Care for Those Admitted with Injury A structured discussion on improving pathways, defining responsibility, and ensuring equitable care across all injury groups.
Professor Antony Johansen has worked as a full-time orthogeriatrician in the trauma wards of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for the last 30 years. He co-authored the 2007 British Orthopaedic Association’s ‘Blue Book’ of Fragility Fracture and the 2011 NICE Hip Fracture Guideline (CG124), and from 2013-2026 was Orthogeriatrician lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians.
Bob is the GIRFT National Clinical Lead for Orthopaedic Trauma. He was a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in Oxford with a trauma only practice for 31 years. He is a Past President of the British Orthopaedic Association and Orthopaedic Trauma Society. He was a member of the NICE guideline development for Hip Fractures co-chaired the two groups for the orthopaedic components of the 2016 NICE Trauma suite. In the past he had wandered; working in Shetland, the Falklands and the Antarctic. He has subsequently been domesticated and now mends toys and attends weddings.