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United Kingdom
Websitewww.arma.uk.net
CoordinatorsDr David Marsh, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Sophie Edwards, Chief Executive, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Neil Betteridge
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7841 5191
Email: sedwards@rheumatology.org.uk
News
BJD International Steering Committee Meets with ARMA in London
June 2007
Activities
The Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance Alliance (ARMA) is the National Action Network. To mark the Bone and Joint decade ARMA has embarked on a number of new initiatives.
On July 1st, 1999 a letter was signed by the British Chief Medical Officer Professor Liam Donaldson where he is pleased to endorse the Bone and Joint Decade on behalf of the UK Government.
ARMA is embarking upon a major project to to identify the elements, which make up an ideal musculoskeletal service, and to set patient-centred Standards of Care for musculoskeletal conditions. This follows a successful consultation conference in September. Drawing upon the Bone and Joint Decade's Strategies project for its evidence base, the Project should provide a sound basis for our Decade campaigning in the UK.
In particular, it will support the development of the Strategy for Arthritis in Wales, which was recently announced by the Welsh Assembly.
As part of the initial work on the Standards of Care project, we are mapping existing musculoskeletal services in the UK. The objective is to create an accurate picture of services as they now stand and, in doing so, to highlight best practice.
One of our key aims for the Decade in the UK is to secure health priority status for musculoskeletal conditions. We are therefore keen to involve Members of Parliament in the Bone and Joint decade. In November 2002, ARMA jointly organised a meeting with MPs with Arthritis Care. Our long-term aim is to encourage MPs to work locally to make sure people with musculoskeletal conditions can access appropriate treatments from their local healthcare trusts.
We also welcome Professor David L Scott as the clinical co-ordinator. Mr Neil Betteridge continues to represent the patient community for the Bone and Joint Decade in the UK. The increased capacity should ensure that the UK Decade campaign continues to grow and develop.
OrganisationsArthritis Care
Arthritis Research Campaign
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Backcare
British Coalition of Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue
British Health Professionals in Rheumatology
British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine
British Orthopaedic Association
British Orthopaedic Research Society
British Paediatric Rheumatology Group
British Scoliosis Society
British Sjogren's Syndrome Association
British Society for Rheumatology
British Society for Surgery of the Hand
British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
Children's Chronic Arthritis Association
Lady Hoare Trust for Physically Disabled Children
Lupus UK
MRC Health Services
National Association for the Relief of Paget's Disease
National Back Pain Association
National Osteoporosis Society
Podiatry Rheumatic Care Association
Policy and Practice Group
Primary Care Rheumatology Society
Psoriatic Arthropathy Alliance
Raynaud’s and Scleroderma Association
Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgical Society
Royal College of Nursing Rheumatology
Scleroderma Society
Society for Back Pain Research
Wishbone Trust
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