New Executive Manager and continuing HMSA recruitment
Hannah Ensor (chair of the board of trustees) has been covering the CEO role for several months now, so Hypermobility Syndromes Association (HMSA) is very pleased to welcome a new Executive Manager, Jane van Velsen, who will be taking on the management of the charity. This role replaces that of CEO, and will mean managing…
MACP AGM 2020 – online
Due to COVID-19 and current restrictions, this year’s Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists AGM will be held virtually via Zoom webinar on Monday 30 November 2020 at 6.30pm. The AGM provides each member with an opportunity to hear what the MACP has achieved in the last year and what the MACP strategy and objectives are…
NHS Change Challenge Innovations
The NHS Change Challenge site continues to publish the most impactful initiatives submitted. Wave two included a number of digital initiatives and wave three will be related to rheumatology services. Each idea has a short slide deck explaining the change and how it was done, the impact and issues to consider for embedding it. The…
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…
BOA Statements, October 2020
BOA statement on preserving elective operating wherever possible in second wave (15 Oct 2020). BOA statement about orthopaedic ring-fenced beds (released 19 Oct 2020). BOA Annual Congress 2021 – Save the Date! Taking place 21-24 September 2021, the BOA Annual Congress programme will be created around the theme of ‘Tackling Infection’, with four days of…
NICE behaviour change guideline published
NICE published its final guideline on behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions on its website . You can also find the supporting evidence, tools and resources as well as all the stakeholder comments. NICE has produced an equality impact assessment to support the guideline. NICE included the recommendations from this guideline in the NICE…
Musculoskeletal health now more important than ever
At the end of Bone and Joint Week (12 – 20 October) I reflect on how much things have changed in just ten days. It is an increasingly worrying time for both healthcare professionals and people with MSK conditions. The response to Covid-19 has already had a significant impact on the MSK health of the…
‘Arthritis and You’ Guardian article
On 30 September the Guardian published a pull-out on ‘Arthritis and You’, featuring a number of ARMA members and important topics, including: living with arthritis, why pain is important, why speed is of the essence for inflammatory arthritis diagnosis, how children get arthritis too, what you can do while waiting for joint replacement surgery, and…
Joint statement from professionals and patients on MSK services in the event of a second wave of Covid-19
Joint statement from professionals and patients on MSK services in the event of a second wave of Covid-19 With cases of Covid-19 rising and the prospect of increased pressure on hospitals this winter as a result, it will be unacceptable for the NHS to respond to this by treating only urgent and emergency cases in…
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…