Resources for services to implement quality improvement including initiatives and ways to optimise their service delivery.
This is the ninth annual report for the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB).‘Steps to fracture liaison service effectiveness: importance of treatment recommendations’ provides national benchmark performance for the care of people with fragility fractures in 2024.
The FLS-DB team has developed two starter packs to provide an overview of the audit. One for newly registered services or those keen to learn more about FLS-DB and another condensed leaflet, which provides a shorter overview of the audit and more tailored for patients.
FLS-DB hosts quarterly webinar known as ‘exchanges’, providing valuable information on fracture liaison services and strategies for service improvement.
A repository of all resources produced by the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) for healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
The healthcare improvement workbook was developed to support local teams with quality improvement tools and enable service improvements with existing resources and limited budgets.
The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) is a clinically-led, web-based national audit of secondary fracture prevention in England and Wales commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP).
The FLS-DB was not granted exemption from the national data opt-out.
These resources aim to improve the patient experience when returning home following a fragility fracture and discussing with primary care.
The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) ran a vertebral fracture sprint audit (VFSA) in 2021 to further investigate vertebral fracture identification.
All key performance indicators (KPIs) measure performance against technology assessments, guidance on osteoporosis and clinical standards for FLSs from NICE, the ROS and the NOGG.
The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) collects data on a secure web tool, hosted by Crown Informatics. This page contains video guides on how to use the web tool.
People with low bone density and a tendency to fall are at risk of a fragility fracture and those who sustain one such fracture are at high risk of another. There are approved treatments for low bone density and interventions to reduce falls risk, but they are not offered to most patients who should be on treatment.
The FLS-DB archive contains pages from projects that are no longer active.
