The following piece introduces work at the National Osteoporosis Society’s Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) on reducing fragility fractures by identifying patients at risk of osteoporosis. Readers are invited to consider:
“One month after suffering a hip fracture, one-in-three people will have died and only half will have returned home. Half of all hip fractures happen to people who have previously fractured. By identifying patients in a consistent, systematic way through an FLS, it is estimated that up to 25% of hip fractures – about 20,000 a year – could be prevented”.
A national approach to reducing fragility fractures – Henry Mace. [Online]: NHS England, July 1st 2016.
This relates to:
Effective Secondary Prevention of Fragility Fractures: Clinical Standards for Fracture Liaison Services. [Online]: National Osteoporosis Society, 2016.
The toolkit for reducing fragility fractures nationally:
Fracture Liaison Service Implementation Toolkit. [Online]: National Osteoporosis Society, 2016.
There is a training course which helps Fracture Prevention Practitioners (FPPs) deliver services suitable for people with (or at risk of) osteoporosis and fragility fractures:
Fracture Prevention Practitioner Training. [Online]: National Osteoporosis Society, 2016.
Peer Review of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Services. [Online]: National Osteoporosis Society, 2016.