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ARMA Newsletter January 2023
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Championing MSK in public health
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Very early in my time as CEO of ARMA I met Nuzhat Ali, who led on MSK public health at what was then Public Health England. Nuzhat is a tireless champion of the importance of MSK health and its central role in public health. “There’s no health without MSK health” she told the ARMA AGM a few years ago.
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Upcoming ARMA equalities project
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2023 promises to be an exciting year for all of us in the MSK sector - and one of our top priorities is addressing health inequalities.
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We know that the impact of MSK conditions is not felt equally. It's completely unacceptable that deprivation and other factors have a significant influence on health outcomes.
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We're working on a ground-breaking new project to address these issues – watch this space for more details!
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Webinar for social prescribing
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12.30 – 1.30pm, Monday 30 January 2023
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To support our resource on social prescribing, ARMA is organising a webinar: Understanding musculoskeletal health for social prescribing.
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This is aimed at social prescribing services and link workers NOT MSK professionals. Please promote this event to your local social prescribing services.
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It is designed to complement our guide for link workers and social prescribing services.
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ARMA would like to thank Arthritis Action for their support of this webinar.
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ARMA Lecture recording
Delivering equitable MSK healthcare: from prevention to highly specialised care.
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Our annual lecture 2022 was given by Liz Lingard, Delivery Partner, System Improvement, NHS England (North East & Yorkshire) followed by a panel discussion with Asim Suleman, GPwER Pain Management, and Jane Taylor, who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis aged 26 and is an ARMA trustee.
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Our first hybrid event asked: What drives inequalities in MSK health?
What can be done to address these?
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A recording of the event is available.
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NOA Virtual Wards concept webinar
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Webinar: Are Virtual Wards Applicable to Elective Orthopaedic Surgery?
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Wednesday 18 January 2023, 1:00pm – 2:15pm
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The next National Orthopaedic Alliance webinar will look at the virtual ward concept.
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Virtual wards (“hospital at home”) is an established pathway for many medical conditions in respiratory and cardiac medicine and also to a lesser extent in surgery.
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HEE quick guide on Osteopathy
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Health Education England and the Institute of Osteopathy have published a quick guide to support the understanding of the value that osteopaths can bring to productive NHS services.
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The guide, which looks to facilitate the best use of the multi-professional workforce, is aimed at clinical leads, workforce leads, operational managers and any senior leaders who are involved in workforce development.
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Arthritis Action launches podcast
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Arthritis Action has launched the first series of its Arthritis Action podcast. The podcast covers a wide range of topics to help people living with arthritis, and those caring for them. In each episode, we will talk to members of the charity, various experts and healthcare professionals.
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Each episode lasts thirty minutes, with new episodes released every two weeks.
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Sport Rehabilitation is now part of a global profession
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BASRaT registered sport rehabilitators are now part of a healthcare profession with international standards, international recognition and international opportunities.
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BASRaT has become a full member of the Athletic Training, Therapy and Sport Rehabilitation International Agreement. The Agreement ensures comparable best practices, quality education and professional standards and enables sport rehabilitators to apply for evaluation to work overseas.
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Webinar - getUBetter in MSK Physiotherapy setting
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Digital self-management support for patients on physiotherapy waiting lists
19 January 2023
12:30 – 13:30 GMT, online
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On 19 January 2023, getUBetter is running a webinar with Somerset MSK Physiotherapy service practitioners to discuss their experiences of implementing the getUBetter digital self-management tool across their clinical services.
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Live Well with Pain webinar
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This compelling webinar will be given by Frances Cole, from Live Well with Pain. In 1996, Frances and colleagues set up the first primary care based pain management programmes in the UK. The outcomes found people with pain had significantly less anxiety, depression, improved physical health and, most of all, their confidence to cope with their lives - despite the pain - had doubled.
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Frances’ webinar will shed more light on this and explain how they developed the resources and website and what is available for GPs and FCPs to use.
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PCRMM Bloods training
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"How and Why to Request Blood Tests and How to Interpret the Results"
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Saturday 28 January
and 4 February 2023
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PCRMM will be delivering a couple of excellent days of bloods training in the new year. Investigations, interpreting results, chronic pain, fibromyalgia and endocrinology amongst many other topics will be covered over these two days of interactive talks and presentations.
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New SMILE-RA Module
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‘How to get the best from your consultation’
It’s no secret that the NHS is on its knees and struggling to cope with many pressures, some linked to the pandemic such as backlogs, some to other issues such as workforce shortages and inability to discharge patients from hospital. As a consequence, there are changes happening to delivery of outpatient care, and it’s essential that those living with a long-term condition learn to manage their disease/s as well as possible…
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New2JIA Right Start service
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A new service from NRAS, New2JIA Right Start, was launched in November to offer support to families of children newly diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. The service aims to help families better understand JIA, feel more in control of managing their child’s condition, and not feel alone at what can be a daunting and overwhelming time.
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Serial Casting: bringing the team together
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Orthopaedic Research UK and the Royal College of Podiatry have produced a series of podcasts called Serial Casting. The series explores collaboration and team building between podiatrists and other healthcare professionals including orthotists, physiotherapists, orthopaedic surgeons and others, all in the interests of our patients.
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Research opportunities with
ORUK
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Orthopaedic Research UK aims to fill the most important gaps in research funding in bone, joint and muscle well-being. ORUK funds innovative research projects in the UK that expand knowledge, improve patient outcomes and pioneer new forms of diagnosis and treatment. To find out more about the latest joint funding opportunities for the MSK community please visit the oruk.org website.
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Core20PLUS5 for young people
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NHS England's Core20PLUS5 approach is now applied to children and young people.
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Core20PLUS5 is an NHS England approach that focuses on the 20% most deprived of the national population plus specific communities which experience inequality. It identifies five clinical areas requiring targeted improvement. Initially focused on healthcare inequalities amongst the adult population, the approach has now been applied to children and young people.
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New Community MSK Framework
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An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience 10 January 2023 A new improvement framework has just been published by NHS England. It will support integrated care systems (ICSs) to reduce commissioned community MSK waiting times while delivering best outcomes and experience for patients. It includes defining principles, recommended actions across primary, community and secondary care and further resources.
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ARMA Calendar
| 18 January 2023, 1pm – 2:15pm |
Webinar: Are Virtual Wards Applicable to Elective Orthopaedic Surgery? |
| 19 January 2023, 12:30 – 1:30pm |
Webinar: Digital self-management support for physiotherapy patients |
| 19 January 2023, 6pm |
NASS Facebook Live: Should you stop anti-inflammatories before an MRI? |
| 28 January 2023 |
PCRMM Bloods training |
| 30 January 2023, 12.30pm |
ARMA Webinar 2022: Understanding musculoskeletal health for social prescribing |
| 2 February 2023, 1pm |
NASS Facebook Live: Hand pain and axial Spa |
| 4 February 2023 |
PCRMM Bloods training |
| 7 February 2023 |
ORUK/NJR/RCSEng Research Fellowship 2023 applications close |
| 17 February 2023, 5pm |
ORUK/BASS/BSS Spine Research Fellowship 2023 applications close |
| 28 February 2023, 12pm |
BOA/ORUK Research Fellowship 2023 applications close |
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We know that many people value our newsletter, webinars and the fact that we provide a voice for MSK health. We are increasingly asked: given that our membership is made up of organisations, how can an individual support ARMA? For this reason, we have set up a new supporter scheme.
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