Primary
and Community Care Audit Group
Data Quality Initiative Site
FALLS
AND FRACTURES FOCUS AREA
The 6th
National Educational Conference
on Falls and
Osteoporosis
1st and 2nd
July 2010
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here for details and
registration form
DXA activity and
needs by PCT
Click
here for an analysis of DXA activity
by PCT (England) in 2009 against projected need for the delivery of NICE
secondary prevention guidance (TA161)
On-line presentations
Click here
for presentation on the importance of vertebral fractures (Stanmore 2010)
Click here
for presentation of evidence of the need for better services for falls and bone
health
Click here for
presentation (1Mb) at 5th Annual Scientific Meeting of Osteoporosis
Interest Groups
Click here for
presentation (6Mb) at Stroud General Hospital Physiotherapy department on 18th
January
Click here for FLS training slides 3rd
October 2008
Read codes
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dataset
This section
is the repository for a number of documents relating to the countywide audit of
osteoporosis, falls and fracture prevention in Gloucestershire.
Summary
of 10 years of service evaluation of falls and bone health
Recent activity in residential and nursing care homes is
summarised in the abstract
presented at the 2009 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research annual
convention, Denver Colorado
This
audit was developed in partnership with the Faculty of Education Health and
Sciences at the University of Derby
.
Data
presented at the European Congress on the Clinical and Economic aspects of
Osteoporosis (2007) is available as an abstract and as a PowerPoint
presentation.
Results
from 2007 and 2010 are available from the NHS shadow site on http://www.glospccag.nhs.uk/pccag208342.html
Click
here for details of the
criteria for these audits
Click
here
for an evidence based justification for auditing this area of care.
Useful
Resources
The
County audits were used as a base for the nationally representative audit of
3.4 million GP records, commissioned and published by the Health and Social
Care Information Centre. The report is
available for download
The
Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit published reports of the national
audits of falls and bone health are available for download from here. The PCCAG was involved in the design and
content of this work.
Some
considerations and justification relating to the potential inclusion of
osteoporosis in to the QOF are available from here. A similar document for falls interventions is
available from here.
NEW Resources relevant to osteoporosis and falls
included within the Prevention Package for Older People are available to download
from the Department of Health website.
This includes a cost benefits analysis for Fracture Liaison Services.
Strategies for the Management of
patients with Prior Fragility Fracture.
This is a useful resource for service development and business case
construction
Strategies
for the Management of patients with New Fragility Fracture This provides an equivalent view for
hospital Fracture Liaison Services
Report
on the Stroud
Valleys Osteoporosis Project