A vibrant partnership with industry is essential: it supports both innovation and continuous improvement in orthopaedic surgical practice. It also ensures the highest attention to detail and excellence in patient safety and quality of care. Thus it is important for the profession to sustain a productive relationship with the healthcare industry in its widest sense, and in particular manufacturers of orthopaedic implants and pharmaceutical companies.
It is equally important that this relationship is one of the highest integrity and to this end the BOA has its own Code of Ethics for Interaction with Industry. In parallel industry has similar codes of conduct sponsored by the Association of British Healthcare Industry (ABHI) http://www.abhi.org.uk/ and the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) http://www.abpi.org.uk/Pages/default.aspx
Industry also plays a key role in supporting the orthopaedic profession through the Exhibition at our Annual Congress, and through sponsorship of fellowships and instructional courses that we administer and organize to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Bribery Act.
British Orthopaedic Industry Liaison (BOIL)
In addition to routine interaction with individual companies we have two principal axes of engagement with industry. The first is in the form of the British Orthopaedic Industry Exhibitors Liaison Committee (BOIL). It meets every six month in the Autumn and Spring to review exhibition arrangements at the previous Congress and plan industry involvement in the next one. The meeting has recently been divided into BOIL Congress and BOIL Policy to allow for greater focus on issues in these meetings. The membership of BOIL is as follows: Boil Congress |
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Joe Dias - President |
Mike Kimmons - CEO |
Janet Mills – Exhibition Manager |
Hazel Choules – Head of Events |
Claire Wilson – Project Manager |
Bob Cradduck - Acumed |
Brian Cornan – Secretary (Exhibitors Committee) |
Paul Moseley – ABHI Representative |
Jamie Lloyd – DePuy |
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Boil Policy (as above plus following members:) |
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Judith Mellis/Clive Powell – ABHI |
Katherine Granger – Corin |
Jamie Lloyd – DePuy |
Mick Borroff – DePuy |
Howard Widdall – Joint Replacement Instrumentation Ltd. |
Beat Egli – Zimmer |
Michael Green – Stryker |
Sandra Lawrence - Stryker |
Phil Bradshaw – Synthes |
Ian Griffitsh – Synthes |
Will Throp – Tornier UK Ltd. |
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The second axis of industry engagement is with the ABHI Orthopaedic Special Interest Section: we now have a sustained dialogue with industry through this mechanism, which enables discussion of broader policy issues such as commissioning, procurement and arrangements for the introduction of new implants. Many of these issues involve interaction with other bodies – including the MHRA, NICE, HQIP, the NJR and ODEP.