Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
The Hypermobility Syndromes Association gets a lot of questions about children struggling with the return to school, and enquiries from teachers looking to support hypermobile students as we approach half term.
HMSA has prepared the School Toolkit for EDS and JHS to address this need.
You can pick up the printed resource for educators in the HMSA shop, or for more information on how to help, browse the online toolkit that the HMSA launched with EDS UK last year:
NICE guideline on Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and people 50 and over at higher risk (update)
NICE has just published the final scope and equality impact assessment for these guidelines alongside all the stakeholder comments received (including NICE’s response).
I was delighted last week to be able to join NHS England’s Health Inequalities Improvement Board to present on the importance of MSK health for equalities. I am also delighted that Bola Owolabi, Director of NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, has written the guest blog for the October issue of our newsletter.
We’ve chosen to highlight equalities during Bone and Joint Week this year because it is critically important. Poor MSK health contributes to and exacerbates health inequalities. MSK is fundamental to our ability to work, socialise, move, eat a good diet – in fact, all the things that enable us to stay healthy.…
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E-Health concerns the use of information technology to deliver the efficacy and improvement of health care systems and services. FOREUM (Foundation for Research in Rheumatology) has launched a call for research proposals on e-Health that focus on stimulating application-driven research and innovations that can improve both individual and population health of people living with RMDs.
Studies should be the impactful integration of technology into care for people living with RMDs rather than new hard or software and will also be evaluated for sustainability in long-term patient care.…
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Sport Rehabilitators can now request scans directly from their clinic system. All BASRaT registered Sport Rehabilitators currently receive Rehab Guru software which is a home exercise prescribing and client management platform, the system has teamed up with scan.com
to schedule scans directly.
Patients can be referred for an MRI, ultrasound or CT scan, they then choose a scanning centre, price and appointment time that suits them. Scan.com’s clinical team reviews and verifies every referral for the clinician and patient’s peace of mind and clinicians can view the process from referral to results.…
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PCRMM Webinar ‘NMAHPPS in clinical research and quality improvement – how to get involved’
25 October 2022, 7.15 – 8.30pm
This extremely beneficial and interesting webinar is being given by Emma Sutton and Caroline Miller. Are you interested in leading your own research? Do you want to know how to write a winning abstract or poster? Come and learn how to present your fantastic service evaluation, quality improvement project or research clearly and make an impact.
NASS launches CPD accredited podcast that champions service improvement in axial SpA care.
Rheum for Improvement – the podcast dedicated to service improvement in axial SpA care – is here! The CPD accredited podcast is brought to you by the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS) and offers a peer-to-peer learning experience that you can access from the comfort of your own home.
In each episode, hosts Lucy Davies (Deputy Director at the NHS Transformation Unit) and Hasan Tahir (Rheumatologist at Royal Free London) meet health care professionals from across the UK who are part of the Aspiring to Excellence programme and have been a driving force for change in their department.…
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The next NOA webinar will look at Human Factors Training and Patient Safety. It will highlight the successes and challenges of setting up and developing a service as well as give an overview of human factors and ergonomics, its relevance and role in improving patient safety and how it has been embedded at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.
Date: 2 November 2022
Time: 12pm – 1:15pm
Speakers:
ORUK’s AI in Orthopaedics Policy Paper was launched at its AI in Orthopaedics conference at the Royal College of Surgeons of England – the first national conference in the UK dedicated to the role of AI within orthopaedics.
The paper makes a case for the important role that AI can play in improving clinical performance and patient outcomes, especially when used to analyse and interpret the vast amount of data that is generated within orthopaedics.
Read more and download from oruk.org…
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The EULAR Edgar Stene Prize Competition runs yearly in memory and honour of the late Edgar W. Stene, who had severe ankylosing spondylitis. First prize is EUR 1,000, including a travel bursary to attend the EULAR Congress 2023. Second prize is EUR 700 and Third is EUR 300.
The competition has now launched for 2023 with entries called on the topic:
“How better communication with my doctor improved my life with an RMD”.
EULAR PARE are encouraging people to write about their personal experiences on the topics and answering the questions:
