Hipcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we’re joined by Dr Angela Sheu , Staff Specialist Endocrinologist at St Vincent’s Hospital Darlinghurst, Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW, and Research Officer at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, alongside Professor Jacqui Close , internationally recognised orthogeriatrician and co-chair of the ANZHFR. Together, we unpack the updated Health...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we’re joined by Associate Professor Chris Wall , Director of the Department of Orthopaedics at Toowoomba Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery Co-Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry, and Assistant Deputy Registry Clinical Director for the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry. In this conversation, we...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we’re joined by Professor Kim Delbaere , Discipline Lead of Physiotherapy at UNSW Sydney and Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia , as well as Immediate Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society . In this conversation, we explore the important relationship between falls prevention and hi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast, we’re joined by the Waitematā Hip Fracture Team in Aotearoa New Zealand , winners of the ANZHFR Golden Hip Award for five consecutive years . Dr Min Yee Seow (Clinical Lead, Orthogeriatric Service), Vandhana Sharan (Orthopaedic Charge Nurse), and Kyleigh Pailman (Orthopaedic Physiotherapist) share how their multidisciplinary team has built one of the hi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we’re joined by Lauren Wulff , a community physiotherapist with the AWHI Early Supported Discharge Team in the Hutt Valley, New Zealand. With limited access to inpatient rehabilitation beds, Lauren and her team have built a comprehensive, high-functioning community-based rehabilitation model that supports patients from the moment they leave hospital. L...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we explore the newly released Clinical Standards for Secondary Fracture Prevention Programs , developed by the SOS Fracture Alliance (SOSFA) and released in November 2025. Joining us are: Professor Markus Seibel , Chair of the SOS Fracture Alliance and Professor of Medicine at The University of Sydney Dr Lauren Nacey , Geriatrician and leader in second...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Grace Taylor from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand joins to share findings from her research " Standard of care and outcomes for Māori patients with neck of femur fractures " published in the ANZ Journal of Surgery. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Hipcast , we speak with three clinical experts about the complexities of surgical timing in hip fracture patients who are taking SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists. Professor Jacqueline Close (Consultant Geriatrician, Prince of Wales Hospital / Neuroscience Research Australia), A/Prof Katherine Tonks (Endocrinologist, Sydney Endocrinology / St Vincent’...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of Hipcast , host Dr Niamh Dove speaks with Nick May , husband and carer of his wife Fleur who sustained a hip fracture and underwent hospital treatment and recovery. Nick shares his reflections on navigating the hospital experience, the realities of recovery at home, and how life changes after a hip fracture - from the viewpoint of the person providing day...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, A/Prof Jennifer Stevens and Emma Pauley share findings from their quality improvement project titled: A post-operative analgesic bundle of fascia iliaca catheter and celecoxib for elderly patients with hip fracture: a quality improvement project.  Jenny is an Associate Professor at both University of Notre Dame and UNSW as well as an anaesthetist and pain speciali...

Send us Fan Mail On the episode, the Older Persons Emergency Network (OPEN) Clinical Director Dr Elizabeth (EJ) Marsden and OPEN nurse practitioner Sarah Bold share their teams achievements to provide pre-hospital hip fracture care. The OPEN Metro North  team provides a pre-hospital neck of femur fracture pathway as a Queensland Ambulance Service co-response emergency department substitution model...

Send us Fan Mail Joining us on this episode to revisit and update on the topic of direct oral anticoagulants, or DOACS, and timing of surgery are Dr Hannah Seymour, a consultant geriatrician from Fiona Stanley Hospital in WA and Dr Seth Tarrant an orthopaedic surgeon from John Hunter Hospital NSW.  We covered this topic on this Hipcast episode in 2024 with Hannah and Professor Rebecca Mitchell fol...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Suzanne Dyer presents on What the Evidence Tells Us in Rehabilitation at the ANZHFR Hipfest 2023. Dr Dyer is a senior research fellow at Flinders University, she’s worked as a researcher in both the public and private sector with expertise in evidence based methodologies including health technology assessment, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and guideline development. She’s t...

Send us Fan Mail Joining the John Hunter Hospital hip fracture care team on Hipcast to sharing their insights into the multidisciplinary care approach of their site awarded the ANZHFR Australian Golden Hip 2023 Award for top performing hospital. Joining us on the episode: Mrs Ramya Kunnath: Orthopaedic Clinical Nurse Consultant - Hunter New England LHD Dr Erica Epstein: Geriatrician - Hunter New E...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Kim Delbaere & Dr Rik Dawson share their work on raising awareness for falls prevention nationally.   Kim is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia and a Professor of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales. She is the current President of the Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society.  Dr Rik Dawson is a Geron...

Send us Fan Mail A/Prof Danielle Ni Chroinin explores the effect of a multidisciplinary care bundle on the incidence of delirium after hip fracture surgery. Links discussed: 1. The effect of a multidisciplinary care bundle on the incidence of delirium after hip fracture surgery: a quality improvement study (2020) in Anaesthesia 2. Delirium Reduction by Analgesia Management in Hip Fracture surgery...

Send us Fan Mail 1 in 3 Australians aged 65 and over fall each year making it the leading cause of death for this age group. Rik Dawson, an experienced physiotherapy and researcher, lifts the curtain to explain what is happening in residential care facilities in terms of physiotherapy care and rehabilitation and explores some important issues including:  The lack of rehabilitation available in res...

Send us Fan Mail Coming to you live at the 2024 ANZHFR Hipfest in Sydney to hear about how the Registry data is fuelling improvements in hip fracture care across the country.  Guests include: - Dr Sheila Rahman, Orthogeriatrician, Campbelltown Hospital (NSW) - Dr Hannah Seymour, Geriatrician, Fiona Stanley Hospital (WA) - Mel Alexander, Intensive Care Paramedic, SA Ambulance Service (SA)

Send us Fan Mail Dr Lara Harvey, a senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and our ANZHFR co-chair Prof Jacqueline Close, a geriatrician based at Prince of Wales Sydney discuss their newly published research titled “Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population-based study” . The ACSQHC hip...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Professor Rebecca Mitchell and Dr Hannah Seymour discuss the work they led in partnership with international colleagues from the Fragility Fracture Network on consensus statements developed to aid clinicians in their decision-making and to reduce practice variations in the management of patients with hip fracture  taking direct oral anticoagulants. For the full ar...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Jacqui Close, Registry Co-Chair and Geriatrician at Prince of Wales Hospital, along with Dr Phil Black, Anaesthetist at Prince of Wales Hospital share the results of the ANZHFR Preoperative Fasting Sprint Audit and the implementation of Sip Til Send at Prince of Wales. Resources: Kluger MT, Culwick MD, Moore MR, Merry AF. Aspiration during anaesthesia in the first 4000 i...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at Queen Mary University London and Barts Health, having joined as the inaugural chair of Bone & Joint Health. Professor Griffin's vision is for world class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations. Prof...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, join episode host James Wright, Registered Nurse and ANZHFR Project Manager, and guest Nicola Ward, NZ Hip Fracture Registry Coordinator and Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Fracture Liaison Service at Tauranga Hospital, NZ  to hear some nursing tips for caring for people after hip fracture.

Send us Fan Mail Dr Richard Kjar, Director of Orthopaedics, Ms Lisa Gephart, Clinical Nurse Consultant Acute Pain Service and Ms Megan Gilbert, Hip Fracture Clinical Specialist discuss the journey to implement the ANZHFR at Northeast Health Wangaratta in Victoria, Australia. View the hospital's innovative NHW Hip Fracture Pathway - Staff awareness - Tik Tok type reel    

Send us Fan Mail Caroline Miller is a Consumer Representative on the New Zealand Implementation Committee of the Hip Fracture Registry.   Caroline has a lived experience of hip fracture and spoke at New Zealand's Hip Festival in Wellington in September 2022. Tune in to hear her advice to health professionals working in hip fracture care.