Inclusion Criteria:  Age 60 years old and above Provided consent for the study Patients with solitary hip fracture (no other fracture) - intracapsular neck of femur fracture, intertrochanteric fracture Either awaiting hip fracture surgery or no plans for hip fracture surgery within the next 24 hours  Exclusion Criteria:  Patients with cognitive impairment or inability to give consent, or refusal to give consent Multiple fracture cases Peri-prosthetic fractures and revisions Subclinical vertebral fractures Hip fractures due to major accidents such as road traffic accidents, fall from height or more than 2 meters Multiple trauma Pathological fractures secondary to metastases  Patients with contraindications to block performance  Coagulopathy as demonstrated by PT/PTT/INR On antiplatelets or anticoagulation Infection/ compromised skin integrity at site of block performance Allergy to local anaesthetics and opioids