Posted on
16 September 2025
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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a care bundle that helps ensure patients undergoing operations have the best-evidenced care before , during and after their operation. It is widely used around the UK across a number of surgical disciplines and has been shown to dramatically improve outcomes for patients. ERAS approaches are not agreed, though, for people who experience a hip fracture and there’s scope to improve care delivery and outcomes for these patients.
This paper reports a survey of 51 hospitals across the UK and found wide variation in ERAS approaches taken by hospitals supporting people with fractured neck of femur, who are predominantly older people who live with frailty. Most of the respondents wanted to support research to standardised approaches and we hope to help lead research on this in the near future.
This paper is an example of how ACHA is co-operating with other research centres, in this case the Unit for Injury, Recovery and Inflammation Science at the University of Nottingham, and how our close links with the Centre for Bone and Joint Health at Queen Mary University of London can help develop important research in North East London. You can access the full paper here.
