My Hip Plan: Improving care for people having hip replacements

Each year in the UK, over 100,000 people have a total hip replacement, a common and generally successful surgery. However, about 1 in 10 people are not satisfied with the results, and around 1 in 7 still experience pain afterwards. Many patients also face long waiting times, often over a year, and some have their surgery cancelled at short notice. This can be costly for the NHS and upsetting for patients. 

Project aims

We created My Knee Plan to support people having knee replacements. In this project we are adapting that plan as My Hip Plan for people having hip replacements, to help improve their experience and outcomes. 

Our team of patients, healthcare professionals and researchers will work together to co-produce My Hip Plan. They will use existing research on what factors lead to good or poor outcomes after hip replacement. They will also look at data from 6 NHS hospitals to understand why hip operations are cancelled. 

We will work with patients who’ve had a hip replacement to review My Knee Plan to see which parts would have worked for them. They’ll also give ideas on what needs to be changed to better suit people having hip surgery. 

Our team will review all the information and suggest updates to the care plan to make it suitable for use in hip replacements. Everyone will have a chance to give feedback in the way that suits them best. Then co-production meetings will focus on agreeing which changes to make. 

What we hope to achieve

The result will be a new, patient-informed care plan designed to improve preparation, reduce cancellations, and make the experience better for people having a hip replacement.