Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
This exclusive two-day digital event hosted by the Institute of Osteopathy starts on 25 November 2022. With two keynote sessions and 18 live workshops to choose from covering clinical, business and development topics, you will also have access to over 20 hours of CPD recordings.
During the event you will have exciting opportunities to virtually network and chat with delegates, speakers and exhibitors online.
Two new leaflets, one for clinicians and another for patients, which aim to reduce unwarranted variation in requests for MRI scans for spinal conditions are now available from NHS England.
Developed by spinal clinicians in collaboration with lived experience partners and stakeholders, the leaflets support both patients and clinicians when considering whether an MRI scan is appropriate and interpreting the scan report.
The patient leaflet can be shared with patients before or during their MRI scan appointment and radiology departments may also wish to link to the advice leaflet on the spinal MRI report.
Managing chronic pain can be one of the most difficult aspects of primary care for both doctors and patients. This trainer led short course looks at the NICE chronic primary pain guidelines and ways to put these into practice.
This webinar will cover:
Wednesday 30 November 2022, 6:30-8:30pm
Cost £25
Book your place on Managing chronic pain in primary care webinar – Step 1 (versusarthritis.org).
Delivering equitable MSK healthcare: from prevention to highly specialised care
Our annual lecture 2022 was given by Liz Lingard Delivery Partner, System Improvement, NHS England (North East & Yorkshire) followed by a panel discussion with Asim Suleman, GPwER Pain Management, and Jane Taylor, who was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis aged 26 and is an ARMA trustee.
Our first hybrid event asked what drives inequalities in MSK health? What can be done to address this? A recording of the event is available to watch. …
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The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health Toolkit for employers and further education institutions – how to support adolescents and young adults to a better future has been launched.
There are two main aims of the toolkit:
The toolkit was developed in collaboration with the British Society for Rheumatology and the Society of Occupational Medicine alongside clinical experts, patient representative groups, college and university representatives and adolescents and young people themselves.…
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On World Arthritis Day, Versus Arthritis sought to shine a light on the crisis people with arthritis are facing this winter — by calling on the Prime Minister to take urgent action to protect them.
In September, Versus Arthritis surveyed almost 4,000 people with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions to ask how the cost-of-living crisis was affecting them, and the results were staggering: 94% of people saying that cold weather has a negative impact on their condition, but 84% are using less fuel because of rising costs.…
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Swim England and Good Boost won two honours in the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Awards for their Water Wellbeing programme.
The organisations were announced as winners of the Community Health Development category, followed by the Public Health Minister’s Award which is chosen from the winners of each category.
The Water Wellbeing programme focuses on improving MSK community services in swimming pools, helping make them more inclusive, accessible, and welcoming. The recognition highlights the importance of the programme in improving health and wellbeing in aquatic spaces and the value of data and measurement in delivery, read more here.
NRAS was proud to host the first Rheumatoid Arthritis Mela tailored for the South Asian community, which took place at Leicester Racecourse on the 13th October 2022.
The event had a great representation of healthcare professionals and specialists from the South Asian community who kindly gave their time to share their expertise on the day.
The feedback from those attending found the event incredibly beneficial for their needs.
As with many events that are the first of their kind there has been some great learning that NRAS will take away, which will allow the organisation to better understand how to deliver these types of events for the community in the future.…
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21 years ago in October, the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society was born.
What an amazing first 21 years it’s been for the society. From that blank piece of paper in Ailsa’s front room to the nationally and internationally acclaimed patient organisation. What will the next 21 years hold for us I wonder? So pleased we were able to mark this significant milestone in the charity’s history last month and you can watch a short montage of the proceedings.
Happy Birthday NRAS, many happy returns!…
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by Sue Brown, CEO ARMA
Another new Government, another new(ish) Secretary of State for Health. From an MSK perspective, what should their priorities be? There are a few things that need to happen nationally, but my first thoughts are that we don’t now need a multitude of new government targets and promises. A lot of what is needed is local and local systems need to be given the space to deliver.
At a local level there are three things I think Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) need to do to deliver on MSK.…
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