Arthritis News | ARMA

ramble4rhuem walk exceeds its target

The Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust would like to congratulate those from the Gloucestershire NHS Rheumatology team who undertook a sponsored walk on Sunday 24th September 2023.

Their successful “ramble4rhuem” campaign had the aim of supporting the Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust, who in turn support the Rheumatology nursing staff with Study Grants. The eight-strong team, which included a couple of Physiotherapists and a Consultant, undertook a 21-mile walk around the Stroud Five Valleys and raised £3,545 against their £2,000 target.

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.…

Read more of this article

Reflections on my life with RA by Ailsa Bosworth, MBE

NRAS founder and National Patient Champion, Ailsa Bosworth, reflected on her personal journey living with RA in this blog post for World Arthritis Day 2023.

Read about her early years, how she was diagnosed, becoming a mother whilst managing the condition and much more in this fascinating read.

Psoriasis Awareness Week 2023

Psoriasis Awareness Week will run from Sunday 29^th October to Friday 3^rd 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.…

Read more of this article

Airing Pain #139 Living with Persistent Pain in Wales

Pain Concern is promoting the latest edition of their Airing Pain podcast: Airing Pain #139 Living With Persistent Pain in Wales.

It was recorded at the Living Well with Persistent Pain in Wales conference during Pain Awareness Month in September 2023. The topic of the conference was the launch of the refreshed persistent pain guidance first published in 2019.

We know that persistent and chronic pain conditions affect a significant proportion of our population. It’s estimated between 33% and 50% of the population suffer with some form of persistent pain.…

Read more of this article

Are you an axial SpA Changemaker?

As part of the Act on Axial SpA campaign, NASS has a created a brand new award to recognise the great work that health care professionals are doing to reduce the time to diagnosis.

Our aim is to encourage as many health care professionals to join us by undertaking a series of actions to ensure that every person with axial SpA is diagnosed within a year of symptom onset. These awards are open to any health care professional working with people with axial SpA, in the NHS or in private practice. …

Read more of this article

Government’s sports strategy highlights role of MSK Hubs

The government has announced ambitious plans to get an additional 3.5 million people physically active by 2030. The announcement was accompanied by the publication of a report, Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity, which featured MSK Hubs as a case study of how sport and physical activity can help people ‘live healthier, longer and happier lives’.

The MSK Hubs programme recently secured £1.4m of funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of the Healthy Ageing Challenge to investigate how to transform leisure facilities into musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs which can be accessed in every community.…

Read more of this article

Good Boost is re-defining national policy

Good Boost has been recognized in the UK Swimming Industry Report 2023, cited as an exemplar of “how pools can be harnessed to support the NHS.”

There is a UK and global sector shift from exercise and fitness to health & wellbeing, and Good Boost is leading the product and service to enable this sector-wide transition.

Good Boost – now five years old – was included as the first case study within the ‘Musculoskeletal hubs in the community’ section of the Government’s new Get Active sport and physical activity strategy released in August 2023.…

Read more of this article

ARMA Welcomes Major Conditions Strategy

Policy Paper

Major conditions strategy: case for change and our strategic framework

Updated 16 August 2023

It is great to see MSK included in the Government’s Major Conditions Strategy Case for Change and Strategic Framework. This is a major step forward in recognising the impact MSK has on people’s lives and wider society. MSK is biggest cause of years lived with disability in the UK, and it’s recognition as a major condition on par with cancer and mental health is a positive step forward.…

Read more of this article

getUBetter shortlisted for HSJ Partnership of the Year award

After deliberations on a record-breaking 1456 entries and 223 projects, teams and organisations have been shortlisted for the HSJ Awards 2023. One of the finalists is getUBetter, ARMA’s associate member organisation.

getUBetter’s work with South West London Integrated Care System and South West London NHS to deliver digital self-management support to their population has been shortlisted for the Partnership of the Year award at the HSJ Awards 2023, recognising their commitment to collaborative co-design with patient at the centre.