Data including the number of admissions with acute closed neck of femur fractures (ICD-10 codes S72, S72.0, S72.1, S72.2) to New Zealand hospitals each year for the years 2014 to 2024. This should be broken down into 5 year age brackets with quantities from within each age bracket. This data should be extracted from Te Whatu Oras hospital admission coding. Data should also include the average cost per admission including Public Health Acute Services payments within the first 6 weeks from injury.

The aim of collecting this data is to analyse it to estimate the neck of femur fracture rates in New Zealand for a research paper. It would aim to predict the future burden using population data. It would also aim to calculate the average cost to the health system of caring for a patient with a neck of femur fracture.

This data will allow us to analyse the changes in rate of neck of femur fractures in New Zealand. It will estimate the current costs of neck of femur fracture claims and project into the future those costs to allow for predictions of future healthcare expenditure and planning of service provision.