The SOS Fracture Alliance is pleased to share the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) Annual Report. The focus of the ANZHFR is to measure hip fracture care against the Hip Fracture Care Clinical Care Standard. In this year’s report 56 hospitals, 41 Australian hospitals and 15 New Zealand hospitals, contributed data on 9,408 patient care episodes (up from 5,908 in 2017). This year, the Registry is highlighting Quality Statement 6: minimising risk of

Professor Markus Seibel, Chair of the National SOS Fracture Alliance for Fracture Prevention, will be speaking at the Country Women's Association of Australia's National Conference in Canberra on Wednesday, August 29th. He will be speaking as part of a plenary session on health issues affecting women across Australia that will run from 9am-10:30am. Prof Seibel’s presentation will be about the SOS Alliance, it's objectives and its vision of ensuring that all women who suffer a

As part of our work increasing awareness about fragility fractures in Australia and the importance of responding to them effectively, the SOS Alliance “Research Spotlight” will aim to highlight recent research publications that deal with fracture treatment and care. This month, two recent publications have caught our eye. A new study lead by Dr Rishi Desai from Harvard Medical School in the US has found an alarming decline in treatment initiation rates in patients who have su

The Fragility Fracture Network (FFN), with the endorsement of more than 80 leading medical organisations from around the world, has issued a global call-to-action to tackle an incoming bone fracture health crisis. With an ageing population across the globe, the incidence of chronic diseases affecting older people is expected to dramatically rise. Osteoporosis, falls and fragility fractures are expected to have a major effect on society and healthcare. The global incidence of