2020 brings Positivity, Optimism and Teamwork
I’ve read a few things about how hard it is to get going after the festive break, or “blue Monday” part way through January, rumoured to be the most depressing day of the year. I’ve had a very different experience this year with a positive start to 2020. January has involved conversations and planning for…
Third APPG for Axial Spondyloarthritis
APPG Speakers, from left to right: Dr James Prior, Becky Adshead, Dr Raj Sengupta, Zoe Clark. The third meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Axial Spondyloarthritis took place on 29 January at Portcullis House in Westminster. The meeting focussed on the delay to diagnosis and included the launch of our Freedom of Information Inquiry…
Health and Inactivity Conference 2020
Health and Inactivity 2020 conference 30 April 2020 “Prevention is better than cure” Royal Society of Medicine This conference aims to clearly articulate current evidence and provide insights on research, issues and solutions: the increasing demands on health and social care, obesity, old age, economic costs of treatment, Physical inactivity and Moving Medicine. The event…
Mental and physical health: practical ways to improve care
Two new outputs have been published by the Q Lab and Mind on improving care for people living with both mental and physical health problems: A practical guide to improving care that includes ideas, challenges to prepare for and examples to learn from. A set of service principles that can be used to inform decisions…
FLS-DB annual report 2020
The Fracture Liaison Service Database Annual report 2020, published in January by the Royal College of Physicians, provides the third national benchmark for the performance of FLSs at the patient level. There were 58,979 of an expected 322,660 patients who sustained a fragility fracture in 2018 across England and Wales were reported on in the…
General Election 2019 arthritis pledges
Versus Arthritis would like to thank everyone who supported their aims during the election campaign: Almost 2,000 people asked their candidates to pledge to champion the needs of people with arthritis; 6,000 emails were sent to candidates across the four nations; Hundreds of candidates tweeted and emailed their support. People can still add their voice…
NICE guideline on digital and mobile health interventions
NICE is developing a guideline on Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions and ARMA has been invited to register as a stakeholder. If your organisation would like to register as a stakeholder for this guideline, please complete the online registration form which can be accessed via the topic webpage. Organisations registered as stakeholders can…
NASS Aspiring to Excellence programme begins
In early December the initial cohort of the multi-year service improvement programme Aspiring to Excellence met for their first day of shared learning. The cohort, made up of members of the six teams awarded a place on the programme, began the process of planning for their department’s improvement aims. The group will meet four times…
Quality in osteopathic practice report
The Quality in Osteopathic Practice report brings together existing research around the patient experience with research on clinical effectiveness and the safety of osteopathic practice. Full of useful statistics and information, the report is relevant to anyone who has an interest in finding out more about osteopathic practice and the evidence that there is available,…
Latest Productive Healthy Ageing Profile
Public Health England has published the Productive Healthy Ageing Profile data update for November 2019. This tool provides data on a wide range of topics relevant to healthy ageing. Indicators can be examined at local, regional or national level. The aim of this tool is to support PHE productive healthy ageing policy and inform public…