Best practice pathway launched for non-ambulatory fragility fractures

GIRFT (NHS England, Getting It Right First Time programme) has shared a new national pathway outlining the best practice concepts for ensuring patients with all types of fragility fracture receive excellent and equitable NHS care.

The GIRFT Non-Ambulatory Fragility Fracture (NAFF) pathway offers guidance for all stages of the patient journey – from presentation in secondary care, to admission and initial care, ongoing ward care and discharge and follow-up – which should be applied to all NAFF patients, regardless of the anatomical site of their injury.

A GIRFT webinar is being held on Tuesday 21 May at 12.30pm to introduce the new pathway. The session will hear from clinicians in emergency medicine, geriatric medicine and physiotherapy, plus the team from North Bristol NHS Trust, who are successfully managing their older injured patients under one agreed process as a cross-specialty team.  

If you’d like to join the webinar, you can register here.

The ROS collaborated on the development of the pathway and has co-badged it along with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), British Geriatrics Society (BGS), the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT), the Royal College of Physicians’ National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD), and the Association of Trauma and Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists (ATOCP).