Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
ARMA is pleased to have been made charity of the month by Gym Group for September. Everyone joining Gym Group during this month will be invited to make a donation to ARMA to support our work on improving services for people with MSK conditions.
Of course, you don’t need to join Gym Group to make a donation to ARMA – you can also become a supporter.
Read about the new supporter scheme.
Whatever anyone may claim, the NHS has been, and still is, completely overwhelmed by the impact of Covid-19. Across the board MSK services are struggling. Meeting the targets of 90% elective procedures and 100% of outpatient appointments by October is not easy. Lots of things will be required – efficient pathways, appropriate use of digital, increases in support for self-management. Three things I feel must be included are lived experience, a focus on equality and prevention.
I’ve been privileged to be part of the Lived Experience Group which informs all aspects of NHS England work on MSK services post-Covid.…
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The Doctor Will Zoom You Now was a rapid, qualitative research study designed to understand the patient experience of remote and virtual consultations. The report makes recommendations for both patients and healthcare professionals for getting the most out of a remote healthcare experience.
Remote consultations and the use of technology offer some great opportunities to make significant improvements to general practice, hospital outpatient and community appointments, but making the most of this opportunity means understanding the patient experience. The project was led in partnership with Traverse, National Voices and Healthwatch England.…
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TWEETCHAT Power to the people
#MSKCoPro
21 Sept 2020 7-8pm
To enable lifelong MSK health within all communities, we must coproduce MSK services with people with relevant lived experience. MSK leads in NHSE/I are coproducing the National Musculoskeletal Strategy with an MSK Lived Experience Group (MSK LEG).
Join @WeAreARMA and the MSK LEG members for a TweetChat all things MSK in these COVID times.
Power to the people: Coproducing the National Musculoskeletal Strategy
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This guest blog was coproduced by :-
Mark Agathangelou, Lived Experience Group member;
Aimee Robson, Head of Personalised Care (Clinical, Workforce & Quality);
Andrew Bennett, National Clinical Director MSK conditions;
Cristina Serrao, Lived Experience Ambassador;
and Helen Lee, Experience of Care Professional Lead.
In this blog, Musculoskeletal (MSK) leads within NHS England and Improvement and people with lived experience consider why coproduction is the golden thread of achieving the highest quality care that is valued by all.…
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The Institute of Osteopathy has issued an information video about what patients can expect when visiting an osteopath during COVID-19.
The video highlights the steps the osteopathic profession have taken to ensure patients can be confident that steps have been taken to keep them COVID safe.
Friday 9 October 2020, 12.30 – 1.30pm
Men with Axial SpA are more likely than women to experience changes to the bones and fusion, and thus they can be picked up using x-ray. Women are more likely than men to experience inflammation rather than fusion, which is visible on MRI but not on x-ray.
This blog post from the HMSA’s Occupational Therapist, Jo Southall, provides an overview of strategies to deal with the not entirely comfortable idea of returning to an uncertain world when you’ve been shielding for some time, and is packed with ideas about how to ease that transition.
Jo is responsible for team wellbeing at the HMSA and also runs a monthly #HMSALiveOT show from the HMSA Facebook page at 7pm on the third Thursday of each month, taking your Occupational Therapy questions live or in advance.…
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Andrew BennettNational Clinical Director MSK, NHS England
Andrew is National Clinical Director for Musculoskeletal Conditions for NHS England and Improvement, and a Consultant Physiotherapist at Sutton Health and Care Alliance, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust. He qualified in 2000 in Leeds, completing specialty training across London as well as a PGcert, PGdip and MSc.…
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by Sue Brown, CEO, ARMA
It’s been fantastic over the last few months to work with ARMA members to rise to the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic. We now have to rise to a new challenge – resetting MSK services to be more personalised and to use shared decision making to ensure people receive the right treatment efficiently and effectively. ARMA’s vision for MSK and that discussed at the NHS England MSK leadership meetings are remarkably similar. Making that vision a reality will take the combined effort of all of us.…
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