Speakers
Alex Aquilina
William Eardley
Antony Johansen
External Organisation
Caring for hip, femur and periprosthetic fractures in 2024 - The National Hip Fracture Database Revalidation Session
Join us as we launch the NHFD 2024 report incorporating surgical updates and all elements of care for Britain's largest injured orthopaedic patient group.
Antony Johansen, Jon Evans and Will Eardley will detail a contemporary view of surgery and all round care of this important patient group. We will update on all elements of care including changes to hip fracture data collection, surgical terminology and alignment with new implant registries. An essential session for all surgeons operating on trauma lists across the United Kingdom.
Chair: Will Eardley; Co-Chair: Professor Antony Johansen
Agenda:
14:30 - 14:45 Fracture surgery and the older patient – nails, plates, performance and registries Will Eardley
14:55 - 15:30 What matters to patients and how do we assess care – the 2024 NHFD report Professor Antony Johansen
15:35 - 15:50 The growing problem for patients and systems of care – periprosthetic femur fractures Jon Evans
15:50 - 16:00 Networking and hip fracture care – learning from across the country All panel
Alex is a specialist trainee registrar in trauma and orthopaedic surgery on the Severn Rotation while pursuing his research interest as an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the University of Bristol. After reading medicine at the University of Bristol, Alex completed an Academic Foundation Training Programme before being appointed to an Academic Clinical Fellowship at the University of Warwick. Following an MSc in Medical Sciences, Alex undertook a DPhil with the Oxford Trauma research group, leading a National Institute of Health and Research (NIHR) registered multi-centre study. This study developed a Core Outcome Set (COS) for patients recovering from open lower limb fractures, identifying what and how outcomes should be measured in future clinical research and audit. Following the publication of Alex’s DPhil project, he was named a Bone and Joint Research Journal featured author in June 2023. Currently, Alex is working on developing a COS for periprosthetic femoral fractures. He recently became a National Hip Fracture Database Fellow and was selected as the BOA Associate Surgical Specialty Lead elect.
Will is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in trauma surgery and fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis.
Will is responsible for hip fracture care in England and Wales as the Orthopaedic Clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database.
Will is involved in benchmarking surgical quality as vice-chair of the Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Will helps coordinate United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma and co-author BOAST guidelines as vice-chair of the
British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee. Will is involved in benchmarking Major Trauma Care and open fracture data collection nationally through the Major Trauma Registry audit committee. Will has recently become an examiner for the FRCS(Orth).
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 since 2013 has been Orthogeriatrician lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians.
Jonathan Evans is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University of Exeter and Consultant hip surgeon at the Exeter Hip Unit. Having completed his doctorate at the University of Bristol, he now works on the data analysis team of the National Joint Registry (NJR). His research interests include Post-operative Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures (POPFF) and he is currently developing a Core Outcome Set for POPFF in preparation for trials in this area. He is working towards securing funding for an international collaborative RCT investigating the management of Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI), the ROADMAP trial. He is also working to develop methods to assess the environmental impact of health technologies and embed this within both trials and observational research such as the NJR.