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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 99-B, Issue SUPP_9 | Pages 50 - 50
1 May 2017
Roberton A Patel N Hockings M
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Background

Best practice tariff (BPT) for hip fracture was introduced in April 2010, offering financial incentive to encourage trusts to implement best practice and improve quality of care. This equates to £1335. An early indicator of a patient's outcome is the time to operation from admission, with best practice targets of <36hours as a key marker of quality. As well as being detrimental to patient experience, delays in the time to operation have clear links to increased mortality rates.

Method

We performed a retrospective audit of neck of femur fracture patients from 01.01.14 for 12 months, investigating time to theatre, other BPT targets, and attainment of BPT. A cost analysis was also performed from financial data.