The NHFD is a joint venture of the British Geriatrics Society and the British Orthopaedic Association, and is designed to facilitate improvements in the quality and cost effectiveness of hip fracture care.

As a National audit project the NHFD is supported by the Information Centre for Health and Social Care’s National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP)

The NHFD is intended to focus attention on hip fracture both locally and nationally, benchmark its care across the country, and use continuous comparative data to create a drive for sustained improvements in clinical standards and cost effectiveness.

Delivering good care for patients with hip fracture is challenging and involves many health professionals including nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists, geriatricians and rehabilitation staff. The quality of that care varies considerably across the country. The combination of care standards, in the form of the BOA-BGS Blue Book on the care of patients with fragility fractures, and Audit (NHFD), will encourage fracture units to develop the interdisciplinary services for rehabilitation and secondary prevention necessary to improve matters for this group of patients.

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