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 explore periprosthetic femur fractures - an increasingly common and complex challenge as rates of j...

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 hip fracture care, and why preventing falls remains a critical – but often under-recognised – part of i...

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 highest-performing hip fracture services across Australia and New Zealand. The conversation explores ...

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. Lauren shares how the Hutt Valley service delivers safe early discharge, provides intensive home-bas...

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 SydneyDr Lauren Nacey, Geriatrician and leader in secondary fracture preventionProfessor Rudi Jaarsma, Academic and Clinical Director of Orthopaedic Surgery a...

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’s Hospital) and Dr Louisa Lowes (Anaesthetist and Director of Perioperative Medicine, Prince of Wa...

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-to-day care. His story highlights the essential role of carers in supporting recovery and what hea...

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 specialist at St Vincent’s Campus in Sydney, Australia. Emma is a Senior Orthopaedic Physiotherapist...

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 to provide timely outreach care for frail older persons living in residential aged care fac...