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Free ESCAPE-pain programme webinar

The full impact of the pandemic upon musculoskeletal health is clear, with an enormous increase in the number of people with knee, hip and back pain. This forthcoming free ESCAPE-pain together webinar is being held on Thursday 8 December 2022, 10:00 – 13:00 and brings together leisure, community and clinical commissioners and providers interested in forming collaborative partnerships to deliver ESCAPE-pain in their communities.

The webinar will also:

Present the results of a Sport England funded project delivering ESCAPE-pain in leisure and community centres.

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School Toolkit for EDS and JHS

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:

https://theschooltoolkit.org/

A week to focus on health equalities

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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FOREUM calls for research proposals on e-Health

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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Speeding up MRI, CT and ultrasound scan timings

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 NMAHPPS webinar

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.

JOIN HERE

NASS Rheum for Improvement

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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ARMA Annual Lecture 2022

We are delighted to announce that the annual ARMA lecture will be held on the evening of 11 October 2022, 7-8pm, on the eve of Bone and Joint Week.

Delivering equitable MSK healthcare: from prevention to highly specialised care

The prevalence and impact of musculoskeletal conditions are not experienced equally across the population. Musculoskeletal conditions are linked to deprivation, age, are more prevalent in women, and disproportionately affect some minority ethnic groups. The profile of health inequalities is currently high, including the focus in the NHS on the Core 20+ approach.…

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RA Awareness Week – #RAFactOrFiction Quiz

RA Awareness Week took place on 12-17 September, and the theme this year was to dispel the myths that surround living with Rheumatoid Arthritis, with a brand new #RAFactOrFiction quiz.

NRAS needs your help to spread awareness of the condition, and you can do this by sharing the #RAFactOrFiction quiz with your friends and family, to help people understand more about the condition and the impact it has on people’s lives.

We know that those of you in the RA community are only too aware of the misconceptions that other people can have around inflammatory arthritis, so this quiz has been designed to educate the general public about the condition.…

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Sharing pain podcast episode

Pain Concern would like to announce their new podcast episode, Sharing pain – how group consultations can help with long COVID and other conditions.

Episode description: Airing Pain producer, Paul Evans, spoke to doctors and patients at Berkshire Pain Clinic and Woodley Centre Surgery about managing the symptoms of Long COVID, the importance of group consultations and the similarities between Long COVID and other chronic conditions. The episode also explores the multi-disciplinary approach at the clinic, and includes interviews with a range of medical staff on how they help people to manage their symptoms.…

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