Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of deaths each year following fractures.

Not all deaths are directly attributable to the fracture, and complications following a fracture are often related to pre-existing ill health and frailty.

For hip fractures, data is available through the National Hip Fracture Database, which is part of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme, a clinical audit of fracture prevention care delivered by the Royal College of Physicians.

The National Hip Fracture Database collects data on the care and outcomes for the over 70,000 people who have a hip fracture each year in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Data from the National Hip Fracture Database for 2024 shows that the percentage of patients who die in the month after a hip fracture in England is 6%.

We do not have data on the number of deaths after other types of fractures.