Category: Courses Classes & Study

COVID-19 / Coronavirus updates for Axial SpA patients

NASS is regularly updating their website with relevant COVID-19 information including how patients can assess their risk, medicines and biologic therapy, mental health and the effect of the virus on work and benefits.
www.nass.co.uk/covid19

Aspiring to Excellence programme 2020 open for applications

Following a successful start for the first cohort, applications are now open for the Aspiring to Excellence  programme in 2020. The programme is designed to encourage and recognise service improvement in axial SpA (AS) care and is a strategic partnership between NASS, BRITSpA and sponsoring companies AbbVie, Biogen, Novartis and UCB.…

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Could you be a 2020 MSK Champion?

Dates for the next Versus Arthritis MSK Champion programme are now live on their website!

Following the successful launch of Versus Arthritis’s Musculoskeletal Champions programme in 2018, they’re recruiting the third cohort of inspirational leaders committed to championing change in musculoskeletal (MSK) health care.

If your application to this programme is successful, you will be coached to develop your personal leadership skills, and drive forward a service improvement project with an MSK focus.

Applications open from 30 March 2020.
Find out more here.

Moving Medicine – Active Conversations

Many of us know that our patients’ lives could be so much better if they move just a little more. Active Conversations has been developed by Moving Medicine in partnership with the Academy for Health Coaching and is a practical, evidence-based online learning course worth 16 CPD points, that teaches clinicians how to have quick, effective and positive conversations that encourage patients to do more physical activity.

The course is comprised of 6 modules over 12 weeks, and the next course is starting on 6 January 2020.…

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New course: Consultation and Clinical Examination Effectiveness in MSK Medicine

The Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine has launched a new course in collaboration with Effective Professional Interactions (EPI), aimed at first contact practitioners – GPs, Allied Health Professionals and Nurse Practitioners.

The two-day course aims to increase consultation and clinical examination effectiveness in MSK Medicine and includes how to exclude red flags.

Read the Consultation and Clinical Examination Effectiveness in MSK Medicine programme for course details, fees and booking.

Discounts for the PCRMM Annual Conference

Primary Care Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Medicine Society Annual Conference

14-16 November 2019
Park Inn Hotel, York

An educational programme of lectures and workshops for GPs, trainees and other members of the practice team to help develop core skills in musculoskeletal care.

Lectures:

Primary Care Networks – Dr Raj Patel, Deputy National Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS England
Osteoarthritis, what’s new and what’s coming? Professor Philip Conaghan, Director of the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine & Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Leeds
Temporal arteritis and PMR – Dr Sarah Mackie, Associate Clinical Professor in Vascular Rheumatology at the University of Leeds, and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Not rare, just rarely diagnosed– Dr Emma Reinhold, RCGP Clinical Champion for the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

Workshops:

  • Joint Injections – using models
  • Core Skills
  • Podiatry
  • Osteoporosis
  • Keele Pain Recorder App and Opioid Withdrawal
  • Ultrasound
  • Promoting improved services for IAPT for Long Term Conditions
  • National Institute for Health Research
  • Health Policy
  • Paediatric Rheumatology
  • Evidence based guidelines for managing MSK conditions

This is a friendly hands-on conference for GPs, trainees and other members of the practise team.…

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NICE Fellowships and Scholarships

The NICE Fellows and Scholars programmes will be recruiting to their 2020 intake from Monday 2 September until Monday 28 October 2019.

Fellowships

Are you an experienced leader in health and social care? Could you build an influential network that helps us to implement our guidance? NICE fellows are experienced leaders from the field of health and social care who are our ambassadors at regional and national levels.

Learn more about NICE Fellows. Fellowship recruitment is now open until 28 October 2019.…

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Physical activity e-learning programme

Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) has worked with Public Health England and Sport England to launch a new physical activity e-learning programme to help healthcare professionals to champion physical activity with patients.

The e-learning programme, which is aimed at GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals, will familiarise the learner with the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity guidelines.

This e-learning course prepares GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals to champion the benefits of physical activity with their patients and, in doing so, help prevent and manage a range of common physical and mental health conditions.…

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MSK Pearls and Red Whale events

Versus Arthritis and Red Whale (the GP-Update course providers) are working together to bring healthcare professionals a fantastic new range of free musculoskeletal education, specifically designed to help improve your confidence and skills in supporting people with MSK conditions and to gain valuable CPD points.

Coming soon:

  • Specially curated MSK Pearls that cut through the clutter and focus on the important issues you shouldn’t miss, as well as the small things that might make your lives easier and your patients’ lives better.
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Therapy Expo 2019

BASRaT is an event partner at this year’s Therapy Expo.

Therapy professionals are under increasing pressure to help relieve the burden on frontline NHS services, dealing with patients presenting with MSK, back, and joint pain. The conference programme is dedicated to key areas including MSK, sports injuries, biomechanics and neuro rehabilitation. 

BASRaT not only has a stand at the expo, we are also holding our AGM on the second day of the conference. Therapy Expo takes place on 27  and 28 November at the NEC, find out more at www.therapyexpo.co.uk…

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BOA Instructional Course

BOA Instructional Course

The BOA Instructional Course was established to help trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgeons to establish strong foundations for practice and assessment. We provide the opportunity for a number of Case Based Discussions (CBDs) across a range of topics but also to network and attend lectures delivered by expert clinicians. This one-day programme runs two parallel streams and provides curriculum-driven clinical updates and critical condition assessment opportunities aimed at T&O trainees and SAS surgeons. For more information please click here.…

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