Education Directory

Help patients receive effective treatment and prevent subsequent fracture through recognition and reporting of vertebral fractures.
This Program provides comprehensive resources to facilitate the understanding and teaching of osteoporotic spinal fractures for interested radiologists, clinicians and healthcare professionals.

Facilitate the implementation of coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention.

The FLS Toolbox has templates designed to help healthcare providers develop a business case for FLS implementation, including an FLS Benefits Calculator which calculates the financial savings that could be achieved by implementing FLS at national/local level. It also includes useful resources for the running of training workshops.

Help patients receive effective treatment and prevent subsequent fractures.

The Clinical Standards provide guidance to consumers, clinicians and health services on delivering appropriate care to people with a hip fracture.

There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care to achieve the best outcomes for patients with fragility fractures.

Open-access book providing a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in fragility fracture care.

There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care to achieve the best outcomes for patients with fragility fractures.

Open access book providing essential, practical knowledge on how best to manage fractures in elderly patients and how to develop clinical systems that do so reliably. Attention is given on how to provide best practice in countries where the discipline of geriatric medicine is not well-established and resources for secondary prevention are scarce.

Formation of national alliances between relevant professional associations to persuade politicians and promote best practice among colleagues.

This guide provides steps to setting up and broadening national Fragility Fracture Networks. The guide outlines the projects and roles of national FFNs to drive changes in clinical practice and national policy.

A Global Call to Action to improve the care of people with fragility fractures.

The FFN Regional Expert meetings for Asia-Pacific, Southern Europe and Latin America were hosted using a state-of-the-art virtual meeting platform. The video recordings of the presentations, breakout sessions and industry-sponsored symposia are available for on-demand viewing.

Facilitate the implementation of coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention.

In this symposium Paul Mitchell (FFN Communications Director) provides an overview of the FFN Clinical Toolkit and the FFN Policy Toolkit. This is followed by a panel discussion with Prof. David Marsh (FFN Regionalisation Chair), Dr Kassim Javaid (Rheumatologist, UK) and Dr Andrew Gray (Orthopaedic Surgeon, UK) on the practical elements of implementing a fracture liaison service.

Four simple building blocks form an effective policy response which has been shown to improve patient outcomes, save money and save lives.

A toolkit which addresses the policy needs of secondary fracture prevention, explains the need for Post-Fracture Care (PFC) Coordination Programs, and provides a step-by-step policy guide to design and evaluate PFC Coordination Programs in hospitals and health systems throughout the world.

Education so that every person knows how to maximise musculoskeletal health throughout his or her lifetime.

The program is designed to encourage greater discussion between healthcare professional presenters and the lay public to help them understand why bones break suddenly and how to prevent such events. There are 6 modules for patient education, much of which is pictorial. This makes it uniquely adaptable to use in any country.