Volume 04 / Issue 03 / September 2016
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BOA Appointments It is our pleasure to announce the following appointments to key positions: l BOA President for 2018/19: Phil Turner l BOA Honorary Secretary for 2017-2019: Deborah Eastwood l BOA Trustees for 2017-2019: Mark Bowditch, Lee Breakwell, Simon Hodkinson, Richard Parkinson
BOA Clinical Leadership Programme The BOA Clinical Leadership Programme (CLP) is an excellent opportunity to provide fellows with the support to develop their leadership capability whilst offering insights into how to accelerate service transformation and quality improvement within their given speciality. The programme consists of four two-day modules which focus on leadership effectiveness, context for improvement within T&O and the tools and methodology to support this, culminating in fellows presenting their improvement project as posters at the BOA Congress. Currently, there are three routes to apply, either individually, through your trust or via a specialist society sponsoring the programme. Applications open in autumn 2016 with further information available on the BOA website www.boa.ac.uk/training-education/clp.
Scaling Up Improvement
The BOA has partnered with Northumbria Healthcare and the Royal College of Physicians to run a quality improvement collaborative for patients with a hip fracture. The initiative is funded by the Health Foundation’s “Scaling up” programme for £500K and will bring together six acute hospitals aiming to improve care and mortality by a multidisciplinary approach. The programme launched on 6th September 2016 and will run for two years. For more information, please contact policy@boa.ac.uk.
Joint Action Challenge Events We would like to thank and congratulate Yusuf Mirza and Shiv Sha for participating and completing the British 10K London Run on Sunday 10th July and for reaching their fundraising targets. Huge thanks also to Edmund Ieong for taking part in the RideLondon-Surrey 46 on Sunday 31st July. This year is the first year that we have had these sought after places available. If you are interested in participating in either of these events (or the London Marathon) in 2017, contact jointaction@boa.ac.uk.
BOA Travelling Fellowships We are pleased to offer a number of Travelling Fellowships to our members for 2017. Fellowships offer a unique opportunity for members to visit centres of excellence overseas, gaining invaluable knowledge, experience and different cultural perspectives within trauma and orthopaedic surgery. Up to 20 fellowships will be available. Applications will open on 13th September 2016. For further information, please visit www.boa.ac.uk/ training-education/boatravelling-fellowships.
BOA Collaborating with NHS Right Care The BOA is pleased to announce that we have agreed to collaborate with NHS Right Care in their initial roll out of ‘hands-on’ support to CCGs across the country. Specifically, we will be linking together our network of Clinical Champions, recruited by the BOA to engage with commissioners at a local level, with Right Care’s ‘delivery partners’, who will be providing direct support to CCGs to redesign local care pathways. NHS Right Care is a programme designed to increase value in healthcare by reducing unwarranted variation. The programme uses the NHS Atlas of Variation and Commissioning for Value Packs to enable commissioners to compare, for example, hip and knee replacement rates to their peers. Following this comparison, Right Care supports commissioners to work with local clinicians and managers to establish whether variation is unwarranted and, if so, develop a plan to reduce the unwarranted variation.
For further information or to comment on any of the news items here, please contact policy@boa.ac.uk.