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FLS Standard 7: ……Follow-up is more

than just “keep taking the

tablets!”Debbie Stone & Jo Sayer

NOS Service Development Managers/Specialist Nurses

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Aims:• Explore different approaches

to follow-up (what do YOU do?) &

• Share ideas that attendees can adapt to THEIR own FLS, including follow-up of patients with

vertebral fractures

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Definition of follow-up:“A return to an existing situation or to a situation that is underway in order to determine what the current status is and whether all has been done or is being done”.

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Follow-up is an integral part of standards for care

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The focus of FLS Standard 7 outcomes: • Supporting patients

• Promptly identifying issues with treatment compliance & adherence

• Improving adherence, leading to greater patient benefit

(& reducing risk of fracture)

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We will look at the broad process of FLS follow-up:• Models of follow-up

• What to include

• Frequency of follow-up

• Challenges that patients/health professionals face

(including recording follow-up)

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Models of follow-up

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What to include

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Frequency of follow up ?

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Challenges that patients/health professionals face with follow-up

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How to record follow-up

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…… Conclusions