Arthritis News & Musculoskeletal News from ARMA's Members

Applications Invited for Trustees

Arthritis Action is seeking to appoint up to 3 new Trustees to join their Board. They are looking for Trustees with access to an established professional network, who can advise the growing organisation and support the delivery of their exciting new strategy.

In particular, Arthritis Action would welcome new Trustees with the following areas of expertise:

Charity Fundraising & Income Generation
Human Resources
Company Secretary with charity related governance experience

They would particularly like to hear from individuals from under-represented or diverse groups.…

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iO New CPD Webinar Series

Daniel McCarthy, iO Professional Development Manager, will be joined by Steven Vogel, Duty Vice-Chancellor at the UCO, for the Institute of Osteopathy’s next CPD webinar focusing on vascular pathologies of the neck on Thursday, 18 July at 12pm.

The webinar will navigate the complexity and clinical equivocality of masquerading vascular pathologies, how they may present, associated risk factors, appropriate screening and decision-making concerning management.

Healthcare practitioners can book attendance to this webinar for £10. (iO Members can attend for free). Find out more here.

Versus Arthritis Musculoskeletal training courses

Core Skills in Musculoskeletal Care and Musculoskeletal Bitesize courses

Core Skills in Musculoskeletal Care – The Versus Arthritis Core Skills training focuses on developing the practical skills required in a 10-minute GP consultation. It provides a supportive environment for primary healthcare professionals to develop confidence and skills in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with MSK conditions. The course is RCGP accredited and endorsed by the BSR.

Delegate quote: “This course exceeded my expectations, the content and delivery was very relevant to my role, so much so I have used the information for 3 patients already this morning.”…

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Healthcare Professionals’ Training Needs survey

Versus Arthritis healthcare professional training and education needs survey.

Versus Arthritis is reviewing their healthcare professional training and education offer and would like to gather insight from healthcare professionals involved in diagnosing, treating and managing patients with MSK conditions, to find out about their MSK training needs and preferences.

Insights will be used to shape the future training and education the charity provides. If you could take 5-10 minutes to complete the survey before 25^th July, your input will be greatly appreciated.…

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The State of Musculoskeletal Health 2024

The State of Musculoskeletal Health is Versus Arthritis’ annual statistics compendium of the most up-to-date, UK-wide statistics on arthritis and other musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. This includes how many people have these conditions, who is at risk of developing these conditions, and its impact on people, the health system and society. Health inequalities relating to musculoskeletal conditions have been highlighted throughout the document.

The new 2024 version includes new topics, including new data on chronic pain in Scotland and a summary of prevalence figures for some of the main types of arthritis.…

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Versus Arthritis UK General Election Manifesto

Please read, support and share the Versus Arthritis 2024 General Election Manifesto calling on the next UK Government to take arthritis seriously.

For too long, arthritis has been dismissed and ignored, but with your help Versus Arthritis can start to change that. Arthritis impacts the lives of over 10 million people in the UK. It can impact a person’s ability to work, look after family or live well. Arthritis must no longer be dismissed by people in positions of power.

The Versus Arthritis manifesto is based on 5 key priorities for the next UK Government, which are:

Each of these five priorities has three specific key deliverables which we believe will make a significant difference to the lives of people living with arthritis.…

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Early bird tickets for Chiro Live 2024

Book your ticket to the British Chiropractic Association’s annual conference – Saturday 12 October 2024.

It is with great pleasure that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) announces to the MSK community that booking for their annual conference, Chiro Live 2024, is now officially open. The event will take place on Saturday 12 October 2024 at the Hilton at St George’s Park in Burton upon Trent, home to all 23 England national football teams.

Book your conference ticket here.

To make things even better, the BCA is running an early bird ticket offer until 7 July 2024, where you can save 10% on all conference ticket types.…

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BCA’s Westminster Roundtable

The British Chiropractic Association held a roundtable at Westminster, London, in April 2024 as part of Chiropractic Awareness Week and the BCA’s “Celebration of Chiropractic”. The event marked a momentous occasion as it was the first time in 30 years the profession hosted a roundtable at the House of Lords, Westminster, London. The purpose of which was to advance the BCA’s member-driven agenda to make chiropractic more integral to UK healthcare.

The United Kingdom, as with many developed and developing nations, is grappling with a rapidly escalating musculoskeletal (MSK) health crisis, significantly straining the National Health Service (NHS) and impairing workforce productivity.…

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New ORUK Research Funding Opportunities

Orthopaedic Research (ORUK) is one of the most significant funders of orthopaedic and MSK research in the UK. MSK researchers should check out these latest funding opportunities from ORUK.

Early Career Research fellowship: Up to £55K for 1 year or £110K across 2 years is available to support the brightest and best clinical/nonclinical talents interested in advancing MSK research in the UK. Application deadline: 24th June for initial expression of interest.

Furlong Fund: Investment of up to £100K in startups and supporting entrepreneurs accelerate innovative and commercially viable ideas to solve the unmet needs of society around bone, joint and muscle wellbeing.…

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Waiting for what?

by Sue Brown, CEO ARMA

We all know that people are waiting too long for a variety of MSK treatment in the NHS. We all know that the NHS is working hard to tackle waiting times with some success. However, the patient’s experience of waiting and the NHS understanding can be very different things. If the NHS is to deal with waiting lists well, then I would argue it needs to understand what waiting means to patients.

The GIRFT rheumatology Further Faster programme invited me to speak about this to their meeting last night.…

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