Category: Events & Meetings

Psoriasis Awareness Week 29 Oct – 4 November 2020

This year’s Psoriasis Awareness Week 2020 runs from Thursday 29 October (World Psoriasis Day) to Wednesday 4 November.

This year, the theme will be ‘types of psoriasis’, based around answering some of the ‘unknown knowns’ that came out of the recent Psoriasis Priority Setting Partnership. Over the course of the week, the Psoriasis Association will focus on a different type of psoriasis each day, chosen from those which are most commonly asked about on the helpline. On Wednesday 4 November, the spotlight will be on Psoriatic Arthritis and nails.…

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2020 Backcare Awareness Week Resources

The 2020 Backcare Awareness Week runs from 5-9 October.
The theme for this year’s campaign is Back Pain in Nursing.

The campaign will, with the assistance of BackCare‘s flagship publication Handling of People (HOP6), prevent significant back injuries in the Nursing profession. Many nurses will benefit from training which is provided by the National Back Exchange organisation.

Display packs are now available to order from the BackCare webshop. The pack contents include:

  • Back pain in Nursing – New A5 booklet
  • Back pain in Nursing – New A3 Poster
  • Talkback Special Awareness Week Edition
  • Talkback back issues
  • Flyer on Facts
  • Link to free downloadable content
  • Balloons and leaflets for display

Visit the Backcare Awareness Week page on the BackCare website for updates.

Power to the people: MSK Coproduction Tweet Chat

At 7pm on 21 September 2020, people living with musculoskeletal conditions and healthcare professionals and policy influencers congregated in anticipation of a tweet chat on Twitter – ‘Power to the People.’

The tweet chat encompassed co-production of a new NHS MSK strategy – patients and healthcare professionals improving care together. The discussion for that hour involved 51 people, 279 posts, 1197 engagements. The #MSKCoPro was seen over half a million times by over 100,000 users.

If you missed it, there were too many tweets to publish them all, but here are some of the themes that emerged in response to questions about:

Please feel free to continue the chat using #MSKCoPro.

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Webinar: Rheumatology Nursing – Past and Present

In just over a week’s time, the Royal College of Nursing’s Rheumatology Nursing Forum will be hosting a free webinar looking at the progression of the specialism. The event takes place on the 13 October starting at 6.30pm.

The RCN Forum Chair, Julie Begum, will be joined by Sue Oliver and Diana Finney to discuss the past, present and future of rheumatology nursing before giving you the opportunity to join the discussion and ask your questions.

Please book your place via the RCN Rheumatology Nursing Webinar event page.…

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BOA Virtual Congress 2020

The BOA ran a member-only Virtual Congress across the two weeks of 15-25 September 2020.

Members can view recordings of the live sessions and the pre-recorded sessions on the BOA website. Take a look at the live session recordings from across the 2020 BOA Virtual Congress. Sessions include, T&O and COVID19; the good, the bad and the future, Howard Steel, Capturing Positive Change – the NHS Change Challenge, Medico Legal Implications of Covid for orthopaedics, The Future of Orthopaedic Training: Diversity and Education, Elective Orthopaedics Re-Start After COVID-19, free paper sessions and more.…

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Webinar bookings sky rocket

Women and Axial Spondyloarthritis: diagnosis and management

Friday 9 October 2020, 12.30 – 1.30pm

Registrations for our next webinar have sky rocketed with hundreds of bookings from healthcare practitioners including many from primary care. If you haven’t booked yet, there’s still time to register. The webinar is free and informative.

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.

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Bone and Joint Week 2020 Resources

This Bone and Joint Week, 12-20 October 2020, good musculoskeletal health is now more important than ever. Whether you have a musculoskeletal condition, or you’re a commissioner, GP, health professional or employer, find resources on this page for help with musculoskeletal health.

People with bone, joint and muscle conditions (musculoskeletal conditions)

Arthritis Action: https://www.arthritisaction.org.uk

CCAA Kids with Arthritis: https://www.ccaa.org.uk/

Ehlers Danlos Support UK: www.ehlers-danlos.org…

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ARMA conference: networking, great speakers and ‘provocations’

Lead Sponsor

Working Together to change the face of MSK

30 November 2020
Venue: online

This one-day conference is a special multi-disciplinary virtual event with speakers you’ll enjoy listening to on working across boundaries, BAME communities, partnership with patients and pain care.

A conference with a difference – we also have ‘provocation’ talks – designed to get a reaction and perhaps thinking outside the box. NHS leaders are attending the event and there will be a virtual networking space and an exhibition too.…

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‘Unlocking Exercise’ webinar and live Q&A

Arthritis Action will hold their latest webinar “Unlocking Exercise Webinar: Barriers and Benefits – Eating Well, Thinking Positively, and Getting Stronger” on Wednesday 30th September, 11:00am – 12:00pm.

The webinar will explore a holistic approach to restarting exercise and preventing the loss of strength and function, for people living with arthritis. The charity’s expert panel will cover the barriers and benefits to exercise, including; immunity, independence, community engagement and mental wellbeing.

There will also be a live Q&A on the topic at the end of the webinar.…

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