Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
Pain Toolkit is running a Pain & Supported Self-Management Week (PSSM) from 3rd February to 8th February 2025, supporting both patients and clinicians.
You can find out more information and many straightforward yet impactful ideas to encourage participation on the Pain Toolkit website.
The National Orthopaedic Alliance has announced the long-list for the 2025 NOA Excellence in Orthopaedics Awards. With over 60 entries received from NOA member organisations across four categories, the awards are set to spotlight the achievements within the alliance’s network of orthopaedic providers. The next stage of the awards process involves the judges selecting finalists for each category, with the list published in February. Winners will be announced during the NOA Annual Members’ Conference on 15 May 2025.
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) is gearing up to launch its groundbreaking three-year strategy in 2025. To make sure this strategy truly reflects the needs and aspirations of those it serves, NRAS teamed up with TwoCan Associates to conduct an insightful survey.
By gathering the invaluable perspectives of people living with RA and JIA, as well as health professionals, NRAS is ensuring that its future initiatives will be impactful, inclusive, and driven by real-world experiences.
You can see the full report here.
NRAS Live: Stress Management and Autoimmune Conditions webinar
6th Feb 2025, 7:00pm
Online – Zoom
While stress itself does not directly cause rheumatoid arthritis (RA), research suggests it can play a vital part in triggering or exacerbating people’s symptoms. According to NRAS’s own report on stress, a staggering 77% of those who took part determined stress to be a major factor when they had flares.
Join the NRAS Live session at the beginning of February for a “Time to Talk Day” special on the importance of managing your stress.…
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NRAS is pleased to announce the launch of their new Stress Matters booklet. This follows on from the report by the same name, which covered the results of a survey exploring patient experiences of stress in relation to their inflammatory arthritis (IA).
Stress Matters explores what the findings of the NRAS study mean for people living with IA. It also helps people to understand what stress is, how it might affect them and gives tips on how it can be managed.…
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27th June 2025
The University of Chicago Booth, London
This one-day conference represents novel approach from the BSR education committee to bring a different type of expert to the lectern as part of a new format that uses patient stories and perspectives to deliver a fresh narrative to clinical learning. These key areas are often neglected when it comes to continuing professional development offerings. In patient-centred care, experiences, both positive and negative, need to be integral to how we learn as healthcare professionals, and how we are inspired to build and deliver our services.…
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The extent to which arthritis affects everyday life at school will vary from child to child and from day to day. Communication between parents, teachers and the child is very important, and building a good relationship with the school and a child’s teacher is key. This is probably the first time the teacher will have come across a child with arthritis.
A recent collaborative piece of work between CCAA, Versus Arthritis and JIA@NRAS has resulted in resources to help with this.…
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The Royal Osteoporosis Society would like to thank all ARMA members for their vital support throughout 2024.
Together, we secured a commitment from the UK government to roll out Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) across England by 2030, expanded FLS to all acute Health Boards in Wales alongside a commitment to high-quality osteoporosis care standards, and won a pledge from the Scottish government to conduct a national audit of FLSs.
We look forward to continuing to work together in 2025.
Thinking ahead to a bright New Year, SOMM has a complete schedule of courses ready for 2025, in locations across the U.K.
Courses include the SOMM Foundation Module, Injection Therapy Module and IT CPD Update Days. You can browse the SOMM schedule here [PDF], and secure your place by email on admin@sommcourses.org.
A very Happy Christmas to all in ARMA!
The next in ORUK’s series of AI-focused webinars will be taking place on 12th February 2025, starting at 9.30am.
Ensuring data quality in AI: Practical and ethical challenges.
This webinar will feature experts in data quality and related ethical challenges and focus on addressing common challenges associated with the use of AI in clinical research including data bias, missing data, and ethical concerns.
The webinar is free to attend but delegates must register in advance.
