New Webinar: Managing child bearing with chronic MSK disease
Managing women of child bearing potential living with chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease Wednesday 3 April 2019, 2.30pm-3.30pm This webinar will cover why it is important to appropriately plan a patient’s pregnancy journey, to minimise disease activity to ensure an optimal outcome for mother and baby, and how healthcare professionals can ensure they initiate conversations around…
GIRFT spinal surgery
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) national report calls for short-term pain relief to be replaced with rehabilitation. GIRFT say that replacing short-term pain relief injections with long-term physical and psychological rehabilitation programmes could help tens of thousands more patients cope with debilitating back pain, in their new report on spinal surgery. See the spinal…
Open Call for Innovative Medicine
FOREUM – Foundation for Research in Rheumatology – announces a programme to support innovative concepts to improve the diagnosis and treatment of Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs). This programme is designed as an open research call seeking for the best and most visionary approaches to better understand RMDs and to improve the life of patients with…
Consultation on new Chiropractic Quality Standard: Osteoporosis
The Royal College of Chiropractors has opened a consultation on a draft Osteoporosis Quality Standard and is seeking the views of all stakeholders including interested organisations, chiropractors, other healthcare professionals, patients and the public. Comments are invited on any aspect of the document including its relevance and applicability to the chiropractic profession, the achievability of…
CEO update: Let’s all get on the bandwagon together
As I sat down to write this, NHS Chief Executive Simon Stevens was on the radio talking about plans to increase the ability of patients to see pharmacists and physios rather than a GP as their first point of contact in the NHS. Ensuring we have the right workforce to meet the growing health needs…
Chiropractor Peter Dixon appointed Fellow of NICE
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has appointed chiropractor Peter Dixon as a Fellow. This Fellowship is for experienced leaders in health and social care to become ambassadors for NICE and to help promote high quality care by developing new ways of working across the care sector. Peter, who is currently a Director…
NICE guideline – Shared decision making
The draft scope for this NICE guideline is now out for consultation; it is a valuable opportunity to ensure that the guideline considers issues important to your members. The consultation page contains the documents, background papers and instructions on how to comment. The consultation on this draft scope will close at 5pm on 15 February…
Webinar – How to implement NBRPP
How to implement the National Back and Radicular Pain Pathway (NBRPP) 12.30 – 1.30pm Friday 8 March 2019 The webinar aims to support the implementation of the National Back and Radicular Pain Pathway. It will initially explain the pathway and present data from early implementers to help make the case for change in your local…
CEO update: The NHS Long-Term Plan – it’s what happens next that matters
The NHS Long-Term plan was published earlier this week. I was pleased to see quite a bit about musculoskeletal health throughout the document. There has been lots of immediate reaction, positive and negative. I think now is the time to focus on the positive, so here are my highlights. The first reference to musculoskeletal health…
EULAR – a year in review 2018
One strategy, a learning management system, five recommendations, 12 campaign sponsorships and a first – and a tenth – anniversary The European League Against Rheumatism, EULAR, is celebrating a year of achievement in rheumatology in 2018. EULAR launched its new five-year strategy as well as the EULAR School learning management system. It also published five…