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The article presents the consensus statement from the International Fragility Fracture Network Delphi on the principles of anaesthesia for hip fracture patients. It mentions that anaesthesia is an important part of multidisciplinary care of hip fracture patients. It offers information on the Fragility Fracture Network (FFN), organization for parctitioners, whoare interested in improving the standards of care for fragility fractures.

We analysed data from the electronic rota system CLWRota, covering 2,689,962 anaesthetic sessions between 01/01/2014 and 31/12/2015, in 91 UK Trusts, in order to investigate trainees' supervision. There were 8209 trainee attachments analysed, during which 618,695 sessions were undertaken by trainees. The number of supervised sessions per week that trainees worked varied considerably (median (IQR [range]) 2.6 (1.6-3.6 [0-10]) for all grades combined), with senior trainees more likely than junior trainees to be supervised for fewer than the three sessions per week mandated by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The number of supervised sessions was unrelated to Trusts' size, suggesting that trainees in smaller hospitals receive the same level of supervision as in larger teaching hospitals. Analysis of a dataset of this size should be a good reflection of the delivery of anaesthesia training in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]