NICE to develop Interventional Procedures Guidance
NICE is developing Interventional Procedures Guidance: Supercapsular percutaneously assisted total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis IP1842. Hip osteoarthritis can cause pain, stiffness and difficulty walking. Standard surgery to replace the joint (total hip arthroplasty) involves cutting tendons and muscles and pulling the hip joint apart to insert the new metal joint. In this procedure, a small…
NHFD Annual Report
The challenge of the next decade: are hip fracture services ready? The National hip Fracture Database (NHFD) has recently released its latest annual report focussing on the six NHFD key performance indicators used to monitor and drive up standards across the country. 2020 will no doubt prove to be one of the most challenging years…
Chronic pain in adults 2017: Health Survey for England
A new report from Public Health England examines data on chronic pain in England and analyses inequalities in the experience of chronic pain. The report will be useful for those commissioning and delivering services for those experiencing chronic pain and policy makers in central and local government. The findings on inequalities include that chronic pain…
Assistive devices survey
The British Assistive Technology Association (BATA) has launched a survey, supported by the WHO’s GATE Programme (Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology), called the UK Priority Assistive Products List National Survey. It is a survey about the most essential assistive products for people, aiming to create a list similar to the essential medicines list from WHO,…
COVID-19 and older people
The Centre for Ageing Better and The Physiological Society have produced a report: A National COVID-19 Resilience Programme. The report says that home confinement in older people may cause: (i) cardio respiratory and metabolic deconditioning, (ii) insulin resistance, (iii) muscle loss and (iv) increased fat mass. In addition, social isolation may be worsened. The report…
The NOA welcomes webinar programme lead
Mr Cormac Kelly, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) founder member organisation, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has joined the NOA as Webinar Programme Lead. Since April 2020, Mr Kelly has played an instrumental role in the delivery of NOA’s COVID-19 webinar series, which continues to provide…
NOA moves forward with OQICAN
The National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) is moving forward with plans to create an Orthopaedic Quality Improvement (inc. Clinical Audit) Network. The new network will enable specialist orthopaedic centres to be connected as a primary source of support and expertise in all aspects of quality improvement and clinical audit for orthopaedics. It is being led and…
FSEM Statement on Long Covid clinics
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) has published a statement on the role SEM consultants can play in new NHS long Covid rehabilitation clinics being set up in England. Read the statement here. Sport and Exercise as the Elixir of Life: A webinar with Sir Muir Gray Recently, FSEM (UK) and the National…
Joint Action Christmas appeal
Thank you to everyone for donating to the Joint Action Christmas Appeal this year; currently you and Joint Action donors have raised ã8,000! If you haven’t already and would like to donate to the Joint Action Christmas Appeal and help raise funds for trauma and orthopaedic research, you can donate online via Justgiving. It’s been…
BOA Position statement on waiting times
Facts and figures from the British Orthopaedic Association on reduced operating times and increasing waiting times during 2020 are available here. BOA Annual Congress 2021 – SAVE THE DATE Under the theme of ‘Tackling Infection,’ the 2021 Congress will take place 21-24 September at P&J Live, The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA). The BOA is currently…