The second National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) Annual Members’ Conference will take place in Birmingham on Wednesday 19 October 2022 and the NOA is now accepting submissions for speakers. Do you have a project, best practice or opportunity you would like to share with NOA members on the day? To put forward a speaker email info.noa@nhs.net by 1 March 2022. Find out more on the NOA website.
Category: Events & Meetings
PCRMM Society NEIAA webinar
PCRMM webinar: National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA)
18 January 2022, 7 – 8.30pm
PCRMM is delighted to have the Audit’s Clinical Director, Dr Jo Ledingham, opening the Society’s 2022 series of webinars with this extremely interesting talk about the background of the national early inflammatory arthritis audit (NEIAA).
Dr Ledingham will be justifying the need for and the potential benefits of the Audit; she will clarify what it is looking at and why, offering insights into latest performance and on how data can be used for QI activity.…
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Online Pain Toolkit 5-day workshop
Online Pain Toolkit workshop for UK and English-speaking EU residents
Presented by The Pain Toolkit – the home of supported pain self-management.
Many people may not have access to pain management programmes and so the Pain Toolkit has organised a team of experiences coaches to run a 5-day (2.5hrs a day) workshop. The workshop is open to people living with persistent pain, and open to maximum of 10 participants. Pain Toolkit will be running three workshops during 2022 in Canada and Australia.…
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Links added during the WT20 Conference webinar
The following links were added to the chat during the webinar:
Coproduction of healthcare service
Shared Decision Making for patients on surgical waiting list infographic
Clinical validation of surgical waiting lists: framework and support tools
Personalised Care Institute home page
Arthritis Action’s Personalised Member Pathway
National Voices resource on how waiting for care impacts on people
ONS data
For data geeks who want to see the ONS data Natalie mentioned
Public Health Profiles
Public Health England’s fingertips tools on local data on the populations where you live
Patient involvement in rheumatology outpatient service design and delivery
More on the ECHO project:
Project Echo’s “Origin Stories” video.…
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Osteopaths role in MSK Service delivery
Amanda Hensman-Crook, AHP National Clinical Fellow from Health Education England, led a vibrant keynote speech at the recent Institute of Osteopathy Convention. Amanda focused on First Contact MSK roles and the Advanced Practice agenda and how osteopaths are part of the contemporary healthcare environment to support MSK service delivery.
Amanda also briefed about an MSK educational roadmap to Advanced Practice and a ground-breaking collaboration that will create a single set of UK MSK standards that will leave a legacy both nationally and internationally.…
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NOA Annual members’ conference a success
The 2021 NOA Annual Members’ Conference held on 20 October was an opportunity for staff representing NOA member organisations, patient representatives and NOA partners from across the country to share achievements, address shared challenges and discuss what’s in store for orthopaedics in the future.
Visit the NOA website here to find out more about the day, which featured a presentation from ARMA CEO, Sue Brown.
Arthritis Action’s World Arthritis Day campaign
To mark World Arthritis Day on 12th October, Arthritis Action ran a week-long campaign on social channels to raise awareness of arthritis and highlight the impact a year living with the COVID-19 pandemic has had on people living with long-term pain conditions, like arthritis. This included the launch of a new video, where Arthritis Action members and volunteers Leigh Walmsley and Lucy Morley-Williams share their inspiring stories of living with arthritis during a difficult year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Upcoming My AS, My Life Facebook live sessions
My AS, My Life is a resource hub from NASS to help you build the confidence and skills you need for those times when you have to manage your axial SpA (AS) condition on your own.
It includes self-management guides, videos, blogs and links to a whole range of issues covering both your physical and mental health.
Each event will be hosted live on the NASS Facebook page, then uploaded to the My AS, My Life webpage.
Here are dates for the upcoming NASS Facebook live sessions:
- Thurs 14 Oct, 13.00: Foot health for people with axial SpA, with Dr Lindsey Cherry
- Weds 20 Oct, 12.00: Pilates for axial SpA ‘improver’ session, with Ruth Larkin
- Tues 26 Oct, 10.00: Relaxation session, with Ali Potter
- Weds 3 Nov, 13.00: Acupuncture for pain, with Ian Appleyard
- Weds 10 Nov, 13.00: Looking after your axial SpA in the winter, with Colin Beevor
- Weds 17 Nov, 18.00: HIIT exercise session, with Josh Poole
- Weds 24 Nov, 13.00: Women and axial SpA, with Dr Helena Marzo-Ortega
BackCare Awareness Week 4 – 8 October 2021
“Putting our backs into it…”
With an estimated 540 million people in the world suffering with low back pain at any one time, It remains one of the leading causes of years lived with disability, and the biggest single cause of disability on the planet today.
It will therefore come as no surprise that it is also the largest cause of work absences, accounting for more than 12 million days lost every year in the UK, alone. Back pain presents a major challenge to health systems and employers alike, and costs the NHS and the UK economy billions of pounds every year.…
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Orthopaedic Quality Improvement Learning Forum
Orthopaedic Quality Improvement (including Clinical Audit) Network (OQICAN) Learning Forum
The next OQICAN forum takes place on 30 November 2021 from 12pm – 1:30pm and will feature presentations from:
- Mr Viraj Gandbhir,
International Training Fellow, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS FT, who will present on the COVID status of all patients undergoing elective surgery;
- Dr Rachel Baumber,Consultant Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Chair Resuscitation Committee and Perioperative Research Lead, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, who will present on six and twelve month quality of life following hip and knee revision arthroplasty;
- Nicholas Emery, Neuromuscular Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS FT.
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