NOA webinar – Origins and Achievements of the GMOA

Save the date for the next NOA webinar taking place on 3 May 2023 at 1pm. The session will look at the origins and achievements of the Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance (GMOA). The current Chair, Professor David Sands Johnson, will share details of the alliance, its role during the pandemic and its goals for the future.

This one-hour webinar will be of interest to anyone eager to form alliances in their local area in order to improve services. Professor Sands Johnson will be interviewed by Mr Cormac Kelly, NOA Webinar Lead, and will take questions from participants.…

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NRAS Live: The importance of exercise

The importance of exercise when living with inflammatory arthritis

Live discussion with expert panel on the importance of exercise when living with inflammatory arthritis.
Facebook Live event

Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 7pm

Exercise doesn’t need to be all lycra and gym equipment! There are so many ways to keep those joints, tendons, muscles moving, so join NRAS live on Wednesday, 29 March at 7pm to hear more about yoga, resistance training, team sports and more, as well as how to overcome some of those hurdles (not literal ones!)…

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ARMA’s webinar for social prescribing link workers

A well-attended webinar on MSK health for social prescribing services and link workers took place in late January 2023. Understanding musculoskeletal health for social prescribing proved popular with attendees, and feedback has been very positive, with participants saying: ‘Absolutely brilliant webinar!’ and ‘The best that I have ever attended.’

If you want to check it out, or share with colleagues, you can find a recording of the webinar here. It was designed to complement our guide for link workers and social prescribing services.…

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PCRMM webinar: Gout best practice

“Gout diagnosis, treatment and management: an update on best practice in primary care”
PCRMM Webinar
Monday 27 February, 2023
7 – 8.30pm

In many cases, gout diagnosis is simple and treatment is cheap and effective with the potential for significant improvement in patients’ quality of life. NICE recently published their first gout guidelines highlighting the poor treatment of Gout in the UK. The webinar will discuss causes, best practice for diagnosis, treatment and management including the role of treat-to-target and the importance of educating both patients and healthcare professionals about gout.…

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Arthritis Action launches podcast for people living with arthritis

Arthritis Action has launched the first series of its Arthritis Action podcast. The podcast covers a wide range of topics to help people living with arthritis, and those caring for them. In each episode, we will talk to members of the charity, various experts and healthcare professionals.

Each episode lasts thirty minutes, with new episodes released every two weeks.  The episodes already available cover the subjects of: work and arthritis, planning and pacing, exercise and activity, communication, and everyday life with arthritis. …

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NOA Virtual Wards concept webinar

webinar speakersWebinar: Are Virtual Wards Applicable to Elective Orthopaedic Surgery?
Wednesday 18 January 2023, 1:00pm – 2:15pm

The next National Orthopaedic Alliance webinar will look at the virtual ward concept. Virtual wards (“hospital at home”) is an established pathway for many medical conditions in respiratory and cardiac medicine and also to a lesser extent in surgery. The Government is encouraging engagement and setting targets for Integrated Care Systems (ICS’s) to adopt these pathways in an effort to reduce pressure on hospital beds.…

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Webinar – getUBetter in MSK Physiotherapy setting

On 19 January 2023, getUBetter is running a webinar with Somerset MSK Physiotherapy service practitioners to discuss their experiences of implementing the getUBetter digital self-management tool across their clinical services. They will share the results of their evaluation of the app’s impact across the service, where they found a 50% reduction in patients needing physiotherapy after the getUBetter app was given to those on their waiting list.

Digital self-management support for patients on physiotherapy waiting lists
19 January 2023

12:30 – 13:30 GMT, online

The webinar will provide opportunities for interactive discussion about the benefits that are being realised in this setting.…

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Webinar for social prescribing

12.30 – 1.30pm, Monday 30 January 2023

To support our resource on social prescribing, ARMA is organising a webinar: Understanding musculoskeletal health for social prescribing.

This is aimed at social prescribing services and link workers NOT MSK professionals. Please promote this event to your local social prescribing services.

Sign up here.

It is designed to complement our guide for link workers and social prescribing services.

ARMA would like to thank Arthritis Action for their support of this webinar.

Women in Orthopaedics webinar

NOA webinar offers opportunity for meaningful conversations about women in orthopaedics.

Following a thought-provoking session at the NOA Annual Members’ Conference in October focussed on Women in Orthopaedics, the NOA hosted a lunchtime webinar to continue the conversation.

Speakers included:

  • Deborah Eastwood, President of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
  • Orla Hennessy, ST4 in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.
  • Caroline Hing, Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


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