January E Bulletin 2020

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January 2020

Welcome to the first e-bulletin of 2020!

Firstly, a reminder to save the date.......

We hope to see you all at conference in 2020 and can confirm the dates will be 9th-10th October in Southampton at St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton Football Club’s ground. Programme and links to buy tickets to follow in the next few months ......!

Secondly, don't forget the your subscriptions are due for renewal and payment should be made before the 1st Feb.

BAHT President Nominations required

Please email baht.chair@gmail.com with your nominations for BAHT President with a reason why they would be a good President.

This person needs to be both an advocate for BaHT and promote hand therapy.

Up coming courses in 2020

6th Feb:

Hand & Wrist study day for AHPs, GPS and junior registrars.
Oswestry, Shropshire

13-15th May:
Fractures of the hand and wrist (level II)
North Finchley, London

14th-16th May
Level I, Introduction to the Hand Therapy
Northwood, Middlesex

14th-16th September
Level I, Introduction to the Hand Therapy
Cardiff

Please see the BAHT website for more details on these courses

Clinical Evidence Committee Update

Hand Osteoarthritis Drug Trial – request for support

Are you seeing someone with painful hand osteoarthritis? Would they be eligible for the HOPE-e study? HOPE-e is a 28-week feasibility study of a randomised placebo-controlled trial testing the effects of a once daily form of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), on hand pain in postmenopausal women with hand OA. Study sites are Oxford and London, so eligible participants would need to be prepared to travel to either centre (travel would be re-imbursed).

If you have any questions, or would like any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Fiona Watt (Chief Investigator),fiona.watt@kennedy.ox.ac.uk, or the study office on 01865 612661, ouh-tr.hope-e@nhs.net. Further information including eligibility, a patient information leaflet, can be found on the studywebsite: https://hope.octru.ox.ac.uk/. Individuals can self-refer if they interested.

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Digital SARAH - Do you provide exercise therapy for patients with RA hand?

My name is Cynthia Srikesavan I am applying for a funding to implement the Web version of the SARAH hand exercise programme in NHS practice. We are looking for hand therapy departments who might be interested in using the digital SARAH. The purpose is to reduce the number of therapy appointments and evaluate the implementation process. Each department will be required to recruit around 12 patients. For more information, please contact me at cynthia.srikesavan@ndorms.ox.ac.uk or 01865737907. Thank you.

BAHT Research Grant – deadline approaching 01/02/20

BAHT have up to £20K to offer for one or several research projects. Full details are listed on the website: https://www.hand-therapy.co.uk/health_professionals/research/baht_funded_research/how_to_apply.aspx

If you have any questions, please email baht.cec@gmail.com

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This Month …

Keep your eyes peeled for the current free to access article in Hand Therapy:

A randomized controlled trial of comparative effectiveness of elastic therapeutic tape, sham tape or eccentric exercises alone for lateral elbow tendinosis

https://doi.org/10.1177/1758998316656660

his article will be free to access from 1-31st January

BAHT Bursaries

Up coming deadlines for bursaries

European Certified Hand Therapist €250 31st January 2020

Level II Bursary £500 31st January 2020

BAHT international bursary £500 31st March
2020

Level II Bursary £500 31st March 2020

National conference bursary £250 31st March 2020

Other course/conference bursary £250 31st March 2020

https://www.hand-therapy.co.uk/health_professionals/bursaries/12/accreditation_of_prior_learning_level_ii

Evidence-based practice-knowledge, attitude, behaviour questionnaire

At the upcoming 2020 EFSHT Congress in Basel Switzerland, a group of speakers has been recruited for the session that focuses on “Knowledge Transfer: Implementation of Evidence Based Practice in the field of Hand Therapy”.As part of this session we would like to present information about “What hand therapists think about evidence based practice”. In order to do so, we would like to survey therapists across Europe to gain insight into therapists’ attitudes and perspectives about evidence based practice. EBP is defined as: using/applying EBP means the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. That is, looking up, appraising and applying both basic, factual information as well as disease-specific and condition-specific evidence.

You are being invited to participate in a web-based online survey research study. It should take approximately 5 minutes to complete.Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may refuse to take part in the research or exit the survey at any time without penalty…

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrgvzoa_U0qwC-l1hd8Q-yE6hNp2msXME24C0dEaMcOiCYxA/viewform

Would you like to join the BAHT committee and help promote hand therapy nationally and internationally? We are looking for new members to join us. Contact bahthandtherapy@gmail.com to express your interest in joining.

We are aso looking for a new BAHT committe member to represent BAHT within the BSSH Overseas committee. The next meeting will be hled at the Royal College of Surgeons in London on the 13th March 2020. further meeting will be done via tele conferencing. For further information regarding this postion contact romabhopal@gmail.com

Meet the Committee.....Sam.T

I’m Sam and I am currently the Director of Social Media on the Executive Committee. I have been working with the Executive Committee since 2015 as the Treasurer, and changed role at the last AGM in 2018. My role mainly involves reading lots of articles and Tweets on Twitter and either re-tweeting them or sharing them on Facebook. Those that follow @BAHTHandTherapy on Twitter and Facebook, have you noticed there’s an open access journal each month? I also share and retweet information about products and job vacancies, so joining the SoMe movement is worth it!!

I have been working in Hand Therapy since 2009, have been one of the Clinical Specialists at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital since 2015, and have been privileged to join the movement of Non-Medical Prescribers and AHPs in Injection Therapy in recent years. I am passionate about developing Hand Therapy as a profession, and have a special interest in sport-related hand and wrist injuries (including national injury prevention and effective rehabilitation strategies). I have recently accepted a lecturing post at a university, so will be continuing my career as a clinical academic. As such, I’ll be stepping down from my role as SoMe Director – if you’re interested in developing this area of BAHT (it’s such an exciting role, with so much potential), contact the Committee (BAHT.Chair@gmail.com).

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