College Record 2019

8 May 2019 was BOA/FFN Hip # Review Day, a multi-disciplinary meeting that brought
together leading experts from orthopaedics, geriatrics, anaesthesia, nursing, physiotherapy,
rehabilitation and secondary fracture prevention, with the emphasis on discussion and
shared-learning.
15 May, we hosted the NIHR / Orthopaedic Trauma Society Musculoskeletal Trauma
Research Network Meeting, to discuss new trials and those in the pipeline. There were
about forty delegates, mostly researchers or chief investigators.
On 19 June we brought together researchers and clinicians who have an interest in
modulating the ways that fractured bones heal. They examined the issue from the different
perspectives of basic and clinical science, with the cluster aiming to identify areas of
common interest and new collaboration. The session raised awareness of the many ways
of improving bone-healing, thus reducing the pain and disability associated with sustaining a
fracture, and returning patients earlier to full function.
FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK (FFN)
26 and 27 August saw pre-board meetings and workshops for the FFN Global Congress.
The FFN has been founded as a global, multi-disciplinary network of experts in the
improving of treatment and the secondary prevention of fragility fractures. It believes
that useful changes in policy can only happen at a national level, and that the best way of
achieving them is to build collaboration between as many countries as possible.
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