The Scottish Hip Fracture steering group aims for delivery of the highest quality of care to maximise the potential of a positive outcome for hip fracture patients.
Scottish Hip Fracture Standard 7 Cemented Hemiarthroplasty as Standard - Evidence List [161 Kb]
Scottish Standards of Care for Hip Fracture Patients - Summary - January 2023 [89 Kb]
These reports provide information on the proportion of patients who have and have not achieved the standards of care at individual hospital level. Please visit our Reports page for more details.
In order to facilitate the monthly review of progress in achieving the national standards of care, hospitals are supplied with an ‘exceptions list’ containing details of all patients who did not achieve a particular standard. Where a small number of cases have not achieved a standard this may require individual case review, however where multiple patients have not achieved a standard this usually indicates an issue with a process.
Download Example of an Exception Report [212KB]
Visit our Reports page for further information.
The Scottish National Audit Programme (SNAP) governance process provides a framework for identifying where patient outcomes may be significantly different in individual hospitals and mandates investigation to better understand why this may be the case. This is an annual process and is further explained in the diagram below;
The Scottish Hip Fracture Audit (SHFA) currently use the following 6 key performance indicators (KPIs):