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BSR's External Affairs team campaigns to shape the UK’s healthcare agenda, promote high-quality rheumatology care and support the rheumatology workforce.
The team helps members locally and nationally, liaising with stakeholders across the health sector to promote the importance of a fully-staffed rheumatology multidisciplinary team.
Campaigning activities focus on:
Workforce issues (such as vacancies, poor retention and accessibility of training and education)
COVID-19 support (including specialty guidance and responses to parliamentary health and social care inquiries)
Access to care challenges (highlighting the importance of developing sustainable services that deliver equitable outcomes for everyone, accounting for individual, organisational and geographical barriers to care)
Please contact us
for support on these and any other issues impacting you locally.
Workforce
BSR responds: Welsh Government plans to reduce waiting lists with £60m funding
27 Apr 2022 |
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Workforce
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Patient care suffers as crucial workforce amendment defeated
We're really disappointed to see sustainable workforce planning voted down in the House of Commons
4 Apr 2022 |
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Ask your MP to support BSR's workforce amendment
The workforce crisis is now the biggest challenge facing the NHS; ask your MP to support this workforce amendment
11 Mar 2022 |
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BSR submits evidence to Government workforce inquiry
Without a long-term national workforce plan, the crisis in rheumatology remains
24 Jan 2022 |
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Workforce: creating fair access to care for everyone
Dr Rosemary Hollick's looking at innovative solutions to halt the postcode lottery of care
11 Jul 2021 |
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Workforce report: key paediatric and adolescent messages
BSR Vice President Jacqui Clinch discusses key paediatric and adolescent takeaways from our recently released report
5 Jul 2021 |
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Rheumatology workforce: 'Trying to do more than just keep afloat is a challenge'
Dr Alan MacDonald talks about staff shortages and what impact it’s having
28 Jun 2021 |
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Crisis in rheumatology: report finds dangerously high workforce shortages
Our rheumatology multidisciplinary teams have long been swimming against a tide of staff shortages and vacancy rates
24 Jun 2021 |
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Factsheets and statements
BSR stands by its position on biosimilar switching
We reviewed our factsheet, originally published in 2018, and agreed that our existing recommendations stand
21 Jan 2022 |
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Factsheet: Access to care in rheumatology
This factsheet looks at the importance of developing sustainable services that deliver equitable outcomes for everyone
28 Aug 2020 |
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Factsheet: Quality Improvement
The latest addition to our factsheet series reinforces our commitment to healthcare improvement in rheumatology
4 Aug 2020 |
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Factsheet: Rheumatology and mental health
Here is a summary of the relationship between MSK conditions and mental health
18 Dec 2019 |
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Factsheet: What is rheumatology?
A breakdown of what rheumatology is, who it affects and what roles make up the MDT
14 Oct 2019 |
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Factsheet: Developmentally Appropriate Care
Helping young people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases to manage their condition has unique challenges and requires a team approach
1 Dec 2018 |
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Work and Health: Rheumatology Fact Sheet
Factsheet summarising obstacles to work for those with rheumatoid conditions
30 Sep 2018 |
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Biosimilars: rheumatology factsheet
Factsheet about biosimilars, manufactured to be similar to an existing licensed reference biological medicine
31 Jul 2018 |
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Service guidance
BSR develops national referral criteria guidance
This guidance serves to ensure that rheumatology departments see the right patients promptly
6 Oct 2021 |
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Top tips: Advice and Guidance
Read new guidance developed by the Clinical Affairs Committee on how to work with Advice & Guidance
24 Nov 2020 |
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Top tips: advice lines
Rapid access to specialist advice has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the disruption of routine outpatient services
23 Sep 2020 |
COVID-19
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Triage top tips
As we move to the COVID-19 recovery phase, we want to share our top tips for improving triage
6 Aug 2020 |
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COVID-19: remote consultations
New principles for rheumatology departments on remote consultations
17 Jun 2020 |
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Reports
Crisis in rheumatology: report finds dangerously high workforce shortages
Our rheumatology multidisciplinary teams have long been swimming against a tide of staff shortages and vacancy rates
24 Jun 2021 |
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News update
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Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology: the State of Play report
Find out more about the recommendations that came out of the report
28 Nov 2019 |
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Specialist nursing in rheumatology: the State of Play
Specialist nursing in rheumatology: the State of Play. Our new report is out now
30 Apr 2019 |
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Rheumatology in Scotland: the State of Play
Rheumatology in Scotland: The State of Play is our second comprehensive report on rheumatology in Scotland
1 Dec 2018 |
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Rheumatology in Northern Ireland: the State of Play
Collaboration between British Society for Rheumatology and Arthritis Care in Northern Ireland
1 Jan 2018 |
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Rheumatology in Wales: the State of Play
Collaboration between BSR and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
31 Aug 2016 |
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State of Play: Rheumatology UK
The State of Play in UK Rheumatology is the first major policy report from the British Society for Rheumatology
1 Dec 2015 |
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