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The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.

The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians and health service managers on delivering appropriate care when assessing and managing patients with a hip fracture to optimise outcomes and reduce their risk of another fracture.

Guidance to health service managers on what the Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard means for delivering appropriate care for patients with a hip fracture.

The Commission would like to acknowledge the Topic Working Group who advised on the first version of the Standard in 2016, some of whom, with other experts, participated in the review of the Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard 2023. The Review Working Group can be accessed below.

The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians and health service managers on delivering appropriate care when assessing and managing patients with a hip fracture to optimise outcomes and reduce their risk of another fracture.

The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard describes the care that you can expect to receive if you have a hip fracture. Find out more about what the Standard means for consumers and other available resources.

Approved by Nicola Bunt, A/Director Clinical Care Standards

Guidance to clinicians about what the Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard means for clinicians assessing and managing patients with a hip fracture

Approved by Nicola Bunt, A/Director Clinical Care Standards

On the Radar Issue 614 is now available.

2023
Newsletter

This issue includes items on patient safety practices, low value care, digital health, maternity care, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Australian Health Review, Patient Experience Journal and of Healthcare Quality along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

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