28 Apr 2025 UKHSA/BOA Radiation Dose Monitoring Exercise In conjunction with the UKHSA, in 2024 the BOA conducted a radiation dose monito...read more Latest News
17 Apr 2025 BOA comment on NICE EVA guidance on RAS in orthopaedics NICE has today (17th April 2025) published Early Value Assessment (EVA) guidance...read more Latest News
27 Mar 2025 Are you using the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) portal? NCIP provides a single point of access to locally and nationally benchmarked NHS...read more Latest News
21 Feb 2025 An indicator of health literacy and numeracy of patients in your area (England) NHS England has launched a health literacy geodata tool, giving clinicians and m...read more Latest News
18 Feb 2025 2025 Healthcare Professionals’ Consensus Statement for action on health and work Improving health and work outcomes for the over 20 million people with musculosk...read more Latest News
14 Feb 2025 New Hospital Programme (England): Plan for implementation (January 2025) Following the 2024 General Election, the Government undertook a review of the Ne...read more Latest News
13 Feb 2025 National elective access policy (England) NHS England has published a policy document setting out national elective access...read more Latest News
10 Feb 2025 BOFAS and RCPod Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) BOFAS and RCPod have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which creates a struct...read more Latest News
30 Jan 2025 2025 New Year Honours The BOA congratulates members of the orthopaedic community who were awarded hono...read more Latest News
09 Jan 2025 Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) 2025 annual report The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) has launched its latest annual re...read more Latest News
06 Jan 2025 BOA response to Prime Minister's announcement to tackle waiting list backlog 6th January 2025 - Responding to the PM’s announcement this morning to address t...read more Latest News
05 Dec 2024 The Government’s Plan for Change must focus on the musculoskeletal needs of the population to achieve its 18-weeks waiting list target this Parliament Based on the most recently available three-months of data, on current trends the...read more Latest News
30 Oct 2024 BOA response to UK budget statement Mark Bowditch, President of the BOA, comments on the Government’s announcement i...read more Latest News
18 Oct 2024 NHS England launch national guidance on tackling and responding to sexual misconduct at work 16th October 2024 - In addition to a new NHS England sexual misconduct policy, N...read more Latest News
14 Oct 2024 The first 100 days... and a new President! The first 100 days of the new Westminster Government has seen a necessary focus ...read more Latest News
23 Sep 2024 New Hospital Programme (NHP) review (England) The Government has launched a review into the much-delayed NHP set up by the pre...read more Latest News
20 Sep 2024 Health Awareness: Innovations in Pain Management As part of a Health Awareness: Managing pain digital campaign, MediaPlanet have ...read more Latest News
12 Sep 2024 National Hip Fracture Database Annual Report The National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) has published its 2024 annual report t...read more Latest News
10 Sep 2024 Community diagnostic centres (CDCs) - Guidance for planning, design and implementation Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) offer patients a wide range of diagnostic te...read more Latest News
10 Sep 2024 All deaths in England and Wales now reviewed independently From 9th September 2024 the Death Certification Reforms, including the statutory...read more Latest News
