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Effective Falls and Fracture Management within Primary Care: a qualitative general practitioner perspective
1. EFFECTIVE FALLS AND FRACTURE
MANAGEMENT WITHIN PRIMARY CARE: A
QUALITATIVE GENERAL PRACTITIONER
PERSPECTIVE
Dr Suhail Tarafdar
GP Registrar
Birmingham City Council
Public Health
Suhail.Tarafdar@nhs.net
3. BACKGROUND (1)
Major Public Health burden
Estimated cost to NHS: £2.3 billion per year
Redesign of services
Opportunities for greater integration
Reference: NICE Guidelines (CG61); Falls: Assessment and Prevention in Older People. June 2013
4. BACKGROUND (2)
Public Health Outcome Framework (PHOF)
(2014/15 data):
Injuries due to falls in people aged 65 and over:
2,125 per 100,000 (England)
2,311 per 100,000 (Birmingham)
Injuries due to falls in people aged 65-79:
1,012 per 100,000 (England)
1,165 per 100,000 (Birmingham)
Injuries due to falls in people aged 80+:
5,351 per 100,000 (England)
5,635 per 100,000 (Birmingham)
5. RESEARCH QUESTION
What are the issues for GPs in Birmingham and
Solihull in accessing and promoting falls
interventions services in the elderly?
6. METHODS
Qualitative study
Birmingham and Solihull
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Birmingham and Solihull Vocational Training Scheme
Semi-structured questionnaire
Face-to-face
Post
E-mail
Long and short version questionnaire
7. RESULTS
Total 17 questionnaires completed
12 long version questionnaires
5 short version questionnaires
Thematic analysis
3 researchers within Birmingham Public Health
8. THEMES
1. Key Priority
2. Lack of Integration
3. Awareness of Services
4. Complex Referral Pathways
5. Opportunities
9. 1. KEY PRIORITY
Ageing Society
‘‘In the future, older population, it is becoming an increasing
priority.’’
Falls Sequelae
‘It is important for the prevention of fractures and injuries in the
elderly… Once the elderly have fallen or had a fracture, they
need much input with increased needs, hospital care and
unnecessary hospital admissions.’’
Resource Implications
‘‘It is a huge priority due to the significant morbidity, mortality and
cost associated.’’
‘‘Important as cost-effective.’’
10. 2. LACK OF INTEGRATION (1)
Primary and Secondary Care
‘‘…hospitals see a patient and find they need an
assessment but then say can you refer in general practice
when they could have actually made it themselves…Just
putting in that extra step, you know, if we miss 10% or
20%...missed in that transfer across.’’
‘‘…Lack of co-ordination in discharge of patients from
hospital to community… Delays in SPA services
responding to referrals from GPs…Inability of GPs to
directly order falls preventing equipment.’’
Ambulance Reporting: disparity in practice
11. 2. LACK OF INTEGRATION (2)
Community-oriented interventions
‘‘I do not consider secondary care fall clinic using tilt tables
and 24 hour tapes to be sensible use of resources.
Patients need to be assessed in their home environment.’’
‘‘Very limited action following referral. A few physio
sessions only often . Nurse led services tend to look at
postural hypotension alone and not holistic enough.’’
‘‘…(patients) should be assessed at home to see where
they need support.’’
12. 3. AWARENESS OF SERVICES
Services known
Occupational therapy, physiotherapy and consultant-led
falls clinic
‘‘…if we don’t know the local services, then we’re
unable to refer…’’
‘‘I think GPs need to be informed on more than one
occasion for it to sink in.’’
Services unknown
Single Point of Access (SPA), nurse-led falls clinics,
fracture liaison, continence services, syncope clinic
13. 4. COMPLEX REFERRAL PATHWAYS
Multiple methods of referral
Choose & Book, telephone, post, fax
‘‘…time is everything. In general practice, it’s such a
precious commodity.’’
‘‘…There is competitive demand on GP time.’’
‘‘…Delays in SPA services responding to referrals
from GPs…’’
Lengthy Process
Time, workload, waiting times
14. 5. OPPORTUNITIES (1)
Population Level: Public Health, Locally Enhanced
Services (LES)
Individual Level
Avoiding Unplanned Admissions (Case Management
Review)
Medication Reviews
Home visits
Discharge from hospital
Elderly care homes
15. 2. OPPORTUNITIES (2)
Risk Stratification
‘‘…we need a coding system for falls prevention. We do
not have this at the moment.’’
‘‘FRAX score…which is useful…would be useful to
have…red, amber, green system giving specific
intervention recommendations.’’
‘‘…drowning in templates…’’
‘‘No more templates please!’’
‘‘Always ask about unsteadiness. BUT we do not have
time…for routine medication reviews…if there is a
problem…review is often opportunistic.’’
16. LIMITATIONS OF STUDY
Small number of respondents
Generalisability
Methods of questionnaire completion
Bias
17. CONCLUSIONS
‘‘…an already overstretched primary care living on
8% of the NHS budget.’’
A national and major Public Heath problem
Themes
1. Key Priority
2. Lack of Integration
3. Awareness of Services
4. Complex Referral Pathways
5. Opportunities
19. STRATEGIC DRIVERS / IMPACT OF STUDY
Five Year Forward View
Better Care Fund
NHS England: Healthy Ageing
PHE West Midlands: Healthy Ageing Priority Action
Electronic Frailty Index
20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Birmingham & Solihull General Practitioners
Birmingham and Solihull GP Vocational Training
Scheme
Hashum Mahmood, Evidence Base Manager
Nicola Pugh, Public Health Analyst
Alison Doyle, Programme Lead Frailty (Public
Health)