Resources

FFFAP Strategy: Improving quality in Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) services

The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) is a national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). It is committed to improving patient outcomes and the efficiency of care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in acute and primary care settings, and to facilitating QI initiatives.

Resource

21/02/25

Fracture Liaison Service Patient Engagement Letter

All Fracture Liaison Services should aim to have patients involved in the development and improvement of their FLS. With their lived experience, patients and caregivers can provide guidance to FLSs to improve outcomes and better care to patients.

Resource

21/02/25

Diagnosis and management of osteoporosis

The Diagnosis and management of osteoporosis e-learning module was developed for GPs, but are relevant for all healthcare professionals interested in of the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis.

Toolkit

07/02/25

Procedure for measuring lying and standing blood pressure (BP)

The objective of this work was to create standardised, pragmatic advice on how to measure lying and standing BP in hospital wards. The purpose is to improve the adherence to this component of the NICE guidelines for fall prevention for hospital inpatients. Measuring lying and standing BP is part of the multi-factorial assessment to optimise safe activity (MASA).

Project information

04/02/25

FFFAP data processing statements

Data processing statements for the three workstreams within the RCP's Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP).

Toolkit

31/01/25

Applying to work with Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme data

The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) has data available for healthcare professionals and academic institutions to access for research and analysis purposes.

Report

09/01/25

FLS-DB annual report 2025

This is the eighth annual report for the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB). You’ve had a fracture; how can we prevent another? provides national benchmark performance for the care of people with fragility fractures in 2023.

Guidance

16/12/24

Bridging the gap: a guide to making health inequalities a strategic priority for NHS leaders

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published a guidance document for physicians focused on building understanding of health inequalities and the actions they can take to make this is a bigger priority in their workplace.

Data document

06/12/24

NAIF Transparency Data

In his transparency and open data letter to cabinet ministers on 7 July 2011, then prime minister, David Cameron, made a commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). This data was released in an open and standardised format for the first time in December 2011, and provided annually from then onwards.