Description of four acute hospital hip fracture services and access to community rehabilitation services, information collected via organisational survey 2011/2012
| Hospital A | Hospital B | Hospital C | Hospital D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approximate catchment population | 300 000 | 500 000 | 400 000 | 500 000 |
| Teaching/DGH | Teaching | DGH | DGH | DGH |
| Orthogeriatrician input | Liaison | Joint care | Joint care | Joint care |
| Orthogeriatrican sessions*/week | 3 | 7 | 13 | 10† |
| Number of PCTs at discharge‡ | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Number of PCTs with a home-based rehabilitation service | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Number of CRHs at discharge‡,§ | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
*One session=four hours of either morning or afternoon work.
†Includes five sessions provided by a specialist trainee.
‡Hospitals may discharge small numbers of patients to other PCTs.
§Each hospital also had access to a small number of beds in one additional social care funded community rehabilitation facility.
CRH, community rehabilitation hospital; DGH, district general hospital; Joint care, formal joint care between orthogeriatric and trauma and orthopaedic services; PCT, Primary Care Trusts.