Press Releases and Statements
Please see below for the press releases and policy statements issued by the BOA. Please contact us at info@boa.ac.uk if you would like further information on any of these or to subscribe to our distribution list.
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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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Statement from the BOA, BHS and BASK regarding newly published study about patients awaiting surgery
A paper published today in the Bone and Joint Journal has highlighted grave conc...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 statement on The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review
The British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) welcomes this report from Baroness Cum...
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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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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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BOA expresses growing concern over lengthening waiting times for patients
New waiting times figures released today by NHS England show a further deteriora...
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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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Patient Statement regarding NJR and Implants
The BOA, BHS and BASK are aware of Daily Mail coverage regarding implants used f...
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BOA respond to NHS waiting times
The BOA is very concerned about increasing waiting times for patients with ortho...
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Joint roundtable event in Westminster
On 27th February, the BOA held a Westminster Roundtable event jointly with the c...
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BOA statement on NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alert on fracture fixation plates
13 February 2019 - NHS Improvement issued a Patient Safety Alert on fracture fix...
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