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Welsh Government’s Quality Statement on MSK Health

Quality Statement for Musculoskeletal Health

The quality statement describes what good quality musculoskeletal health services should look like.

First published: 12 October 2023

Last updated: 12 October 2023

The Wales MSK Conference took place in Cardiff on World Arthritis Day, 12 October 2023. ARMA CEO Sue Brown presented alongside the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Frank Atherton and the Health Minister, Eluned Morganon.

The Minister and the CMO delivered speeches covering the scale of the challenge in terms of the number of people living with MSK in Wales – nearly a million – as well as the impact of the conditions on quality of life; both spoke about the importance of primary and secondary prevention regarding MSK.…

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Chronic pain: What matters to you?

This research aims to better understand what it means to live with and manage chronic pain, from everyone’s perspective. You now have the opportunity to say what matters to you by participating in this survey.

By answering the questionnaire, you can help overcome some of the current uncertainties and challenges of chronic pain management. Your knowledge will enable the researchers to collaborate closely with patients and patient organizations to develop better care that are meaningful for people living with chronic pain and their families.…

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Two sides of the same coin: inequalities in healthcare

ARMA CEOby Sue Brown, CEO ARMA

ARMA is in the process of writing up the report of our inquiry into the impact of deprivation on MSK health inequalities. Of course, this is not the only factor that impacts on MSK health inequalities. Age, sex, ethnicity and a range of other factors intersect to give the highly unequal picture we see. So I was delighted to be invited to speak at a Kings Fund conference on women’s health.

MSK proved to be an excellent introduction to the day with many parallels with the rest of the agenda.…

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Webinar: Coproduction – being an effective lived-experience partner

26 October 2023,
10 – 11am

  • Are you someone with lived experience of musculoskeletal conditions?
  • Would you like to know how to be involved in the design of MSK services?

Increasingly the NHS is realising the importance of talking to the people who use their services about how to do things better. This can be a simple survey, but can also involve focus groups or directly involving people with lived experience in decision-making meetings.

If this sounds like something you would like to do but you aren’t sure how to make your voice heard, this webinar is for you.…

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NRAS Live: Importance of stress management for those with RA

NRAS conducted a recent survey investigating people’s experiences of stress and how it impacts on the onset and/or exacerbation of inflammatory symptoms. In this discussion, Clare Jacklin (NRAS CEO) will be presenting the headlines of the survey results and then ask for input from Will Gregory (Consultant Physiotherapist and Clinical Governance Lead Rheumatology Directorate from Salford Royal Hospital) and Sam Norton (Mental Health Researcher at King’s College London) on their impression of the survey results and what rheumatology health professionals could do to support patients more in relation to stress management.…

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Psoriasis care information webinar

Register for FREE webinar – ‘Achieving the best in psoriasis care.’

The Psoriasis Association and St John’s DermAcademy are delighted to collaborate for a fourth year running to bring you ‘Achieving the best in psoriasis care’, a free webinar of informative talks from experts at the forefront of psoriasis research and practice.

If you are living with psoriasis yourself, or you have a friend or family member who is, then this event may be of particular interest to you.

The webinar will take place via Zoom on Thursday 26th October 2023 at 6pm.…

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Psoriasis Awareness Week 2023

PAW 2023Psoriasis Awareness Week will run from Sunday 29th October to Friday 3rd of November 2023 and this year’s theme is ‘Talking about Treatments’.

How to treat psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis is understandably one of the primary questions asked via our helplines. During the week, we will be looking at ways to access the correct treatment pathways and how people can achieve the best in psoriasis care. We will be hearing from those who self-manage their condition as well as those under the care of a GP or a dermatologist.…

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Self-management design for women’s pelvic health

Empowering Women’s Pelvic Floor Health: The role of co-designed digital self-management support technology across an ICS

getUBetter is pleased to be hosting a webinar on the 9th of November 2023 at 12:30-1:30pm.

Join female leads from SW London and South Yorkshire ICSs as they share their insights and experiences from co-designing with getUBetter a digital self-management support tool to highlight the importance of women’s pelvic floor health and its deployment at scale across their organisations.

Women’s pelvic floor health is a vital aspect of overall well-being affecting quality of life at every age, but especially during the perinatal period and then again at the time of perimenopause and menopause.…

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COVID Shielding Voices report

In October 2023 the COVID Shielding Voices report was published. Funded by Versus Arthritis and conducted by the Centre for Epidemiology at the University of Manchester, it is a research study about people with autoimmune inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, who shielded during the pandemic. The report has been shared with both the UK and Scottish COVID-19 inquiries.

The COVID Shielding Voices report captures the depth of people’s experiences of shielding during the pandemic and its long-lasting impact on them, their families, their mental health, and their working lives.…

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