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BOA & BOTA Culture and Diversity Champions
As part of BOA & BOTA’s culture and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strate...
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Parenthood and Orthopaedics
The BOA has launched resources to support parenthood in trauma and orthopaedics....
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2022 SAS Professional Development Programme
The BOA is looking for SAS T&O surgeons to join our brand new online Professiona...
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BOAST - Peripheral Nerve Injury
All clinicians undertaking musculoskeletal care may be involved in the managemen...
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BOAST - The Safe Use of Intraoperative Tourniquets
Local tissue damage is a significant potential consequence of tourniquet use, pa...
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Specialty and Associate Specialists (SAS)
The BOA believes that meeting the professional development needs of our SAS coll...
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BOA Travelling Fellowships - Closed
06 September 2021 - Every year, the BOA offers a number of Travelling Fellowship...
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Introducing the new BOA App
06 August 2021 - Keep up to date with all things BOA with the new year-round app...
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Statement regarding recent media coverage about orthopaedic surgery
09 July 2021 - We are aware of media coverage this week about a research study i...
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Webinar: BHS/BOA Culture and Diversity Meeting
Held on 24th June 2021, this lecture and discussion co-hosted by the BOA and the...
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BOA Statement on RCS England publication 'A New Deal for Surgery'
28th May 2021 - The RCS England has published its ‘New Deal for Surgery’ today, ...
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Webinar: Practising what we preach! Arterial injuries associated with fractures and dislocations
Held on 26th May 2021. Arterial injuries associated with a fracture or a disloca...
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BOA and Specialist Society Position paper on caring for patients awaiting surgery
6th May - We are writing to all members of the BOA and the specialist societies ...
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Committee vacancies
Applications are now open for vacant positions across all committees for three-y...
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Coping with COVID: Managing recovery and supporting patients
Join us for the next 'Coping with COVID' webinar to be held Tuesday 11th May
BOA statement on waiting times data release from January 2021
11th March 2021 - Elective Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery has been severely affe...
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BOAST - Providing a Continuous Safe Elective Orthopaedic Environment
26 February 2021 - A sufficient and stable bed base is essential for effective y...
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Survey on burnout and wellbeing among trauma and orthopaedic surgeons
27th January 2021 - We are currently experiencing a pandemic of healthcare work...
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New guidance on COVID-19 vaccination, surgery and steroids
22nd January 2021 - Guidance on the timing of vaccination, surgery and steroid i...
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NuVasive PRECICE device recall by MHRA
21st January 2021 - The MHRA yesterday issued a notice on 20 Jan 2021 about a de...
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Current BOA position regarding elective activity, waiting lists and restart
11th December 2020 - In late-March 2020, all non-urgent elective operations and ...
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NHS England waiting list figures show T&O patients are worst affected
11th December 2020 - The latest Trauma and Orthopaedic data for England, publish...
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British Orthopaedic Association statement on Comprehensive Spending Review
25th November 2020 - The Government has announced an additional £1 billion for t...
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Information for patients having steroid injections in the upper limb or hand during the Coronavirus pandemic
23rd October 2020 - The BOA, BSSH and BESS have published this patient informati...
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BOA and GIRFT statement on 'ring fenced' orthopaedic beds in the COVID-19 context
The BOA and GIRFT have worked together to produce this statement regarding 'ring...
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BOA statement about proposed suspensions of elective operations in some regions
The BOA is aware of media reports regarding hospitals in England that are consid...
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Progress on restarting elective orthopaedic surgery
Orthopaedic elective surgery has achieved one of the lowest percentage returns t...
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BOA viewpoint on communications with waiting list patients and those approaching surgery
The reduction in number of operations during the COVID-19 pandemic (just 4.9% of...
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BOA position on suspending surgery due to COVID-19
With cases of COVID rising across the UK there is discussion of a second wave an...
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BOA statement on NICE planned care rapid guideline
The BOA supports the implementation of the COVID-19 rapid guideline ‘Arranging p...
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BOA pathway guidelines for resumption of local anaesthetic musculoskeletal procedures in adults
This document outlines recommendations for a reasonable pathway, mindful of both...
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BOA Position statement on Medical Device Regulation from 2020
On 26th May 2017, the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR 2017/745) was published, w...
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A message for people waiting for joint replacement and other orthopaedic surgery
We are acutely aware of the growing waiting lists that are affecting all planned...
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Joint Statement from the BOA and Versus Arthritis on April Waiting Times
“Elective surgery – including joint replacement surgery – has taken a massive hi...
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Re-starting non-urgent trauma and orthopaedic care: Summary guidance
The BOA has produced guidance on a range of issues raised by the shift towards ‘...
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National selection to T&O training in England, 2020
02 May 2020 - As we all reflect with varying emotions on the 2020 T&O trainee se...
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Guidance for casting practice in the current COVID-19 pandemic
The BOA Casting Committee has written these guidelines to help with casting prac...
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BOAST - Management of patients with urgent orthopaedic conditions and trauma during the coronavirus pandemic (Archived)
It is acknowledged that, during the coronavirus pandemic, surgeons and patients ...
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BOA statement regarding hip and knee waiting times FOI data
The BOA has raised concerns for some time over waiting times for orthopaedic sur...
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Getting It Right in Orthopaedics: A follow-up on the GIRFT national specialty report on orthopaedics
The British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) is delighted and proud to support this...
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BOA/BASK/BHS communication about changes to knee revision surgery in England
The BOA, BHS and BASK, wish to inform our members about developments in the way ...
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