MSK & Arthritis News

Diploma in MSK Medicine – Register your interest

Dip MSK medicineExam sitting – 28th May 2026
Applications open – 12th January 2026

The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK is dedicated to promoting a more active nation and ensuring that MSK and rheumatological conditions and pain symptoms are not a barrier to living an active life at any age or ability level. This Diploma examination will support evidencing competency as a GP, GP Working in Extended Roles as well as allied health professionals working towards advanced practice roles (including extended scope physiotherapists and advanced nurse practitioners) in a range of community settings.…

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Psoriasis Awareness Week 2025

Psoriasis Awareness Week 2025Psoriasis Awareness Week is fast approaching with this year’s event running from Wednesday 29th October to Tuesday 4th November 2025 with the theme ‘Comorbidities of Psoriasis’.

Comorbidities are the presence of one or more additional diseases or disorders that occur in someone, alongside already living with psoriasis.

This includes conditions such as Psoriatic Arthritis, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and the mental health impact that living with psoriasis may have including low self-esteem, feelings of isolation and loneliness and anxiety and depression.…

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Better MSK health is the foundation of our future prosperity and wellbeing

ARMA CEOby Adrian Bradley, CEO ARMA

The link between health and economic activity has become a central focus of policy. New analysis from the ONS and NHS England, highlighted by the King’s Fund, shows how health and work are closely connected. Poor health reduces employment and productivity, and long NHS waiting lists hold people back from returning to work. Improving musculoskeletal (MSK) health will undoubtedly deliver major economic benefits. Fewer people in pain means fewer absences, more people able to stay in work, and greater productivity.…

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Access the Is It RA? Symptom Checker

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Although RA Awareness Week 2025 has come to a close, NRAS’s mission to raise awareness about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) continues every day.

NRAS was delighted to see over 2000 people using the Is it RA? Symptom Checker – a tool that should empower thousands more people to take the next step in seeking support from their healthcare professionals.

But the work doesn’t stop there. The symptom checker is now available permanently to help as many people as possible get the answers they need.…

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NASS announces collaboration with NHS England

NASS, in collaboration with NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme, is pleased to announce the launch of its Axial Spondyloarthritis Playbook: reducing the time to diagnosis and improving patient experience. Drawing together the data and learning from the NASS Act on Axial SpA campaign, the playbook aims to accelerate efforts to reduce the time to diagnosis for this condition and provide the best information and supported self-management to those newly diagnosed, by supporting healthcare professionals to implement a set of actions in their local areas.…

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Hands-on or hands-off? Rethinking manual therapy

In the August edition of the Physio Network’s Podcast, SOMM’s Teaching Fellows, Darren Collin and Johnny Smith, discussed the role of manual therapy in physiotherapy along with the key differences between NHS and private practice.

This insightful conversation is now available to hear, and sets the stage for SOMM’s upcoming Spinal Manual Therapy Masterclass, taking place on 8th November in Liverpool – a new offering designed to sharpen hands-on skills and deepen clinical reasoning in spinal care.

The day will be action-packed with great, relevant content.…

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Reflections on opportunities for better MSK health

ARMA CEOby Adrian Bradley, CEO ARMA

Throughout my first three months in post, I have been constantly struck by the breadth, diversity, expertise and impact of ARMA’s member organisations. Last week I had the pleasure of being a guest of the British Orthopaedic Association at their Annual Congress in Liverpool. Under the theme of ‘Preventing Harm & Transforming Lives’, I attended inspiring sessions on topics as far ranging as integrating orthopaedic clinical practice with support for patients’ lifestyle modification, reducing unnecessary hospital stays in arthroplasty, calls for a national ACL injury prevention programme and, perhaps most soberingly, our preparedness for war.…

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Arthritis Action Trustee vacancies

Arthritis Action logoArthritis Action is seeking to appoint up to three new Trustees to join their Board. They would welcome new Trustees with the following areas of expertise:

  • Charity Fundraising & Income Generation
  • Law
  • Accountancy
  • IT & cybersecurity in the charity sector or small business
  • Professional experience in the NHS

Arthritis Action would particularly like to hear from individuals from under-represented or diverse groups.

Download the Trustee Recruitment Pack (opens pdf).

The deadline for applications 09.00, Monday 13th October 2025.

EULAR Edgar Stene Prize Competition 2026

EULAR PARE has announced the launch of the EULAR Edgar Stene Prize essay competition 2026 on the topic: 

“Is it all in the genes, or not? How rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) shape and reshape family connections”.  

The competition is open to people aged 18 and over living with rheumatic and MSK diseases (RMD) who wish to write about their personal experiences on the competition topic.

In addition, for 2026 entries are also invited from parents, siblings, grandparents, and adult children of an individual living with an RMD to participate (all must be 18 years of age or older).…

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