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Orthopaedic recruitment during COVID

NOA Webinar: COVID Orthopaedic Recovery: National and International recruitment

16 February 2022 at 1pm

The first National Orthopaedic Alliance webinar for 2022 will look at national and international recruitment.

Probably the biggest issue impeding orthopaedic surgery recovery is staffing. Many members of staff have left the NHS, retired early or have long term medical and/or mental health issues that limit their ability to work.

This has resulted in staffing shortages across various orthopaedic services in particular, theatre staffing. Providers are desperate to retain staff but also want to recruit the best people for the job which sometimes means looking overseas.…

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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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Orthopaedic recovery webinar

NOA Webinar – Orthopaedic Recovery: Prioritisation and Harms Review

17 November 2021 at 1pm

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with a major challenge in orthopaedic recovery. The inevitable delays mean we need to ensure the most urgent cases are given the correct priority and that we identify potential and real harm during this process. This has meant a big increase in work for Clinicians and supporting management. The next NOA webinar focuses on this challenge and hears from three NOA member organisations sharing their experiences.…

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Join the BJW online launch event and panel discussion

We’re holding an online event to launch Bone and Joint Week:
‘What can help MSK health nationally, regionally and locally, now more than ever?’
12 October at 12.30pm-1.45pm

We know that good musculoskeletal health means better wellbeing for individuals and communities, but with the challenges on the system and its workforce, how can we accomplish this? Join us for this fast-moving discussion of key points of what can help. The event marks the start of Bone and Joint Week 2021.…

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NOA’s COVID Recovery webinars

Webinar recording: Update on Orthopaedic COVID-19 Recovery

The latest NOA webinar took place on 15 September 2021. The session included a powerful presentation from orthopaedic patient, Val Harvey, who has shared her journey throughout the pandemic with the NOA and joined the webinar for an update. Paul Jenkins, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Scottish Committee for Orthopaedic and Trauma (SCOT) looked at how COVID-19 has impacted orthopaedic services in Scotland, and the programme of remobilisation, redesign and recovery. You can view the recording here.…

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ARMA CEO to speak at Health and Inactivity webinar

9 September 2021
09.30am

ARMA’s CEO, Sue Brown, along with speakers from Public Health England, Moving Medicine and others, will be speaking at a Health and Inactivity webinar, organised by Why Sports.

This webinar will discuss and build on new and existing agendas. How do the leading organisations plan to provide better access to support and joined-up services, whilst working with people who live the experience, after all, they are the experts and should be central to how services are designed and delivered. …

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September is Pain Awareness Month

September is Pain Awareness Month from The Societal Impact of Pain. Pain Awareness Europe (PAE), in collaboration with other organisations in Europe, is holding an online event on 7 September, 14:00-15:00 CEST (15:00-16:00 British Summer Time). The webinar (in English) will focus on the topic of employment and pain and is open to all interested parties. Join the virtual event with via link.

There are also some infographics from PAE on ICD-11 and ICF available here.

ARMA free webinar – Services to support people to live well with pain

17 September 2021, 12.30 – 1.30pm

ARMA’s free webinar during Pain Awareness Month features James Watson, Physiotherapy Pain Lead, Integrated MSK and Community Pain Management, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and Mohammad Shoiab, Pain Specialist Physiotherapist/Clinical Lead, Connect Health Pain Services.…

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NOA ICS webinar, part two

NOA webinar: Integrated Care Systems (ICS): the new world of musculoskeletal care (part 2)

The National Orthopaedic Alliance will host the second part of its musculoskeletal care webinar series on 7 July at 1pm. Part one was held on 16 June, read about it here.

Speakers for part two include:

Mr Peter Kay, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon from Wrightingon, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS FT;
Tom Bramwell, Senior Policy Adviser from the British Medical Association;
Leah Miller, Senior Public Affairs Officer from the British Medical Association.

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BackCare’s pain management webinar

The basis of the webinar was to provide a closer insight into back pain whatever the cause and to evaluate alleviating back pain from three different angles, these being: therapies, minimally invasive surgery and medication, with each area represented by an expert in the field.

Dr Brian Hammond PhD, Vice President of the National Back Pain Association (more commonly known as BackCare) discussed therapies; Dr Basil Almahdi, Consultant Pain Specialist analysed surgery and minimally invasive treatments of problems caused by degenerative spinal disease; and Dr Anthony Ordman, past president of the pain medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine, reviewed medicines with a special interest in cannabinoids.…

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