Category: Events & Meetings

Bone Matters

The Royal Osteoporosis Society has launched their new #BoneMatters programme, a series of online expert information events.

The first webinar of the series is on Medication Support: helping people make informed decisions about recommended osteoporosis drug treatment. Join the ROS on Tuesday 17 May to hear from leading experts Dr Nicky Peel, Dr Zoe Paskins and Professor David Armstrong on key topics to help you make decisions about your osteoporosis drug treatment.

Topics include:

  • What’s new in drug treatments
  • Understanding side effects or health risks
  • Getting the most out of your medication

Get full details and tickets here

This week is Chiropractic Awareness Week

Chiropractic Awareness Week, hosted by the British Chiropractic Association, starts on Monday 4 April

Chiropractic Awareness Week (CAW) 2022 will commence on 4 April and this year’s theme will be Rigour, Evidence, Relevance: The Future of UK Chiropractic Care and Building Connections with Mainstream Healthcare.

The British Chiropractic Association’s primary focus for this year’s CAW (4-10 April) will be to showcase the chiropractic profession as a regulated, evidence-informed, ethical and reliable health profession to their peers in the wider healthcare community.…

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Get involved in JIA Awareness Week

JIA logoAfter the success of RA Awareness Week, this year NRAS is having its first JIA Awareness week #SameJIADifferentDay, which will run from the 13 to 17 June 2022.

The staff members at NRAS understand it can be very frustrating for children, young people and even adults with JIA to keep explaining that JIA is a fluctuating condition, and some days are good, and some are bad. No two days are the same living with JIA and you can help raise awareness of this by getting involved:

  • Share, like, retweet #SameJIADifferentDay posts: it makes a big difference.
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Leadership award for BCA President

President of the British Chiropractic Association, Catherine Quinn, honoured with a prestigious leadership award

The BCA is delighted to announce to the MSK community that at this year’s Parker Seminars Las Vegas which took place in February, BCA President, Catherine Quinn, was awarded their prestigious ‘Women in Leadership 2022’ Award. The award was presented by Parker University and the World Congress of Women Chiropractors (WCWC) in recognition of Catherine’s strong leadership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Parker’s President, Dr William Morgan, said Catherine’s leadership has focused on “building bridges, rather than walls”.…

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JIA Awareness Week: 13 – 17 June 2022

JIA logoAfter the success of RA Awareness Week, this year NRAS is having its first JIA Awareness week #SameJIADifferentDay, which will run from the 13th to 17th June 2022.

When NRAS staff speak to parents, children and adults with JIA, the same conversation comes up: how can we get people to understand that some days people living with JIA can do things like go for long walks or play football, when other days they really struggle to get out of bed or climb the stairs at work?…

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New date for NOA webinar

NOA logoNOA Webinar: Learning from never events and serious incidents (SUIs)

The next National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) webinar will take place on 25 May 2022 at 1pm via Zoom. The session will focus on learning from never events and serious incidents.

Note from editor: the representatives from the CQC are no longer able to speak at this event.

Never events and serious incidents are a cause for concern and anxiety when reported in an organisation. They require investigation and official reporting. The end result should be a process of open multidisciplinary analysis and discussion led by the Clinical Governance team that results in learning for the organisation.…

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NOA Annual Members’ Conference 2022 – call for speakers

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. 

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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