GIRFT has shared a new national pathway outlining 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.
Existing pathways for NAFF patients are complex, involving input from different departments and professional groups, and are often shaped by the organisational structure of a trust. This has led to marked variation within and between trusts in how this group of patients with similar needs is cared for.
The NAFF pathway is a collaboration between 38 stakeholders with geographic and cross-specialty representation, and aims to address those operational practicalities, offering universal concepts trusts can adopt to work towards a more equitable service, using existing resources.
To view the pathway, click here
Source: GIRFT
