Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
The next joint meeting of the Haywood User Group / ARMA Stoke is on Dec 1st 2017 at the Haywood Hospital, in the lecture room at 1pm.
Refreshments are available from 12:30pm.
All patients, carers, staff and interested parties are welcome.
Haywood Hospital,
High Lane,
Burslem,
Stoke on Trent
ST6 7AG
Arthritis and Connective Tissue Disease flares are normal but do have an impact on every aspect of your life. In simple terms a flare can be described as “a sudden increased severity in symptoms that can hit at any time”.
For many patients having a flare is disheartening, they feel that they have been managing their arthritis/connective tissue disease well and doing all the right things by taking their medication regularly and maintaining a healthy balance of exercise and activity, then one day they wake up and feel like it was all for nothing.…
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ARMA Stoke would like to let you know they are having their 3rd meeting of the year for the ARMA/Haywood user group.
This will be on Friday 15th September at 1pm in the lecture room at the Haywood Hospital, Burslem, Stoke -on-Trent.
Refreshments will be available from 12:30pm.
Presentations on the day include Brighter Futures (Mental Health), Osteoarthritis Day for patients, the Blue Iris Project and other updates from the hospital.
The North Wales ARMA Network has set advance details of its meetings for next year.
A map and directions are provided for meetings to be held on :-
• Tuesday 23th January 16:30 – 18:30 hours
• Tuesday 17th April 16:30 – 18:30 hours
• Tuesday 3th July 16:30 – 18:30 hours
• Tuesday 16th October 16:30 – 18:30 hours
Download full details in pdf format.
Read the Summer-Autumn 2017 update newsletter from the Department of Rheumatology at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, and the Portsmouth ARMA Network, which features:
Alongside the update are the fliers and forms related to upcoming events –
Day to Day Living with Arthritis and Connective Tissues Diseases Conference 2017:
Programme for healthcare professionals with registration form.…
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Upcoming North Wales support group meetings for people with arthritis and chronic pain.
Dates:
7th August 2017
4th September 2017
2nd October 2017
6th November 2017
4th December 2017
Venue:
Holywell Community Hospital, North Wales.
The meeting room is behind the cafe and opposite the reception area.
Open full-size and save the flyer for more details, or see the North Wales Arthritis & Chronic Pain Support Group Facebook page.
What a difference a month makes. When I last wrote an introduction to the ARMA newsletter we were in the run up to an election. I’m not sure anyone expected the result to go quite the way it did. Instead of increasing their majority the Government now has no majority at all and will have to rely on the support of other parties to get their plans through. What will this mean for people with MSK conditions?
In some ways it will be yet another distraction.
Guest blog by Liz Lingard, NHS RightCare Delivery Partner
Over the past 3 months I have joined the ‘Whole System MSK events’ that ARMA and NHS England have organised as the RightCare speaker. This was an opportunity to clarify the RightCare approach to everyone working across the system and how they can apply this in their local health economies. The core aim of RightCare aligns to what each of the ARMA partners aspires to achieve: ensure the right person is able to access the right care in the right place at the right time, making the best use of available resources to help deliver a sustainable NHS.
Wales is the only home nation without a full multidisciplinary paediatric rheumatology service, so many children and families in Wales travel long distances to access vital services. Arthritis Care believes children with arthritis in Wales deserve better.
That is why Arthritis Care Wales, together with the British Society for Rheumatology and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, held a drop-in event in Cardiff on the 28 June 2017 to talk to Assembly Members about the impact of childhood arthritis and the need for better services.…
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The Department or Rheumatology at the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust are pleased to announce that another conference for healthcare professionals is planned for 2017.
Day-to-Day Living with Arthritis and Connective Tissues Diseases Conference 2017
“Understanding the pieces of the puzzle – for management of Arthritis and Connective tissue diseases together”
For topics, timings and the delegate registration form, please open and download the conference programme.
Wednesday 27th September 2017
Mountbatten Centre, Alexandra Park, Portsmouth
Admission is free, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come first-served basis.…
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