Best practice tariff (BPT) for hip fracture was introduced in April 2010, offering financial incentive to encourage trusts to implement best practice and improve quality of care. This equates to £1335. An early indicator of a patient's outcome is the time to operation from admission, with best practice targets of <36hours as a key marker of quality. As well as being detrimental to patient experience, delays in the time to operation have clear links to increased mortality rates. We performed a retrospective audit of neck of femur fracture patients from 01.01.14 for 12 months, investigating time to theatre, other BPT targets, and attainment of BPT. A cost analysis was also performed from financial data.Background
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