SCOT have released a statement highlight the current challenges facing the delivery of orthopaedic services in Scotland. The statement highlights urgent measures that SCOT believe are required to re-establish an acceptable level of orthopaedic care.
Winter SCOT 2022 Prizes
1st Prize: Gareth Turnbull (West)
Development of composite bioinks that can be injected or 3D bioprinted to aid osteochondral defect repair (Turnbull GS, Shu W, Picard F, Clarke JV)
2nd Prize: Jay Chuntamongkol (West)
The influence of body mass index on long term survivorship of primary knee arthroplasty (Chuntamongkol R, Burt J, Zaffar H, Habbick T, Picard F, Clarke J, Gee C)
3rd Prize: Fabienne Robertson (South-East)
Outcomes of Poole traction splinting for hand phalangeal fractures: a single region experience. Robertson F, Jones J, Simpson C, Molyneux SG, Duckworth AD)
Winter SCOT 2022 – Moved Online
We are sorry to announce that due to the current COVID increase in cases and pressure on NHS services, the SCOT Committee and Winter SCOT Organisers have decided to move to an online format. We hope to return to the traditional format for the Winter 2023 Meeting.
Date: 28/1/2022 (Friday)
Time: 12:45 to 16:30
We are grateful to Stryker for providing sponsorship of the meeting. This is contributing to funding the online webinar format along with the research session prizes. There has been no input or direction as to the nature or content of the educational or research sessions.
Programme:
10am-12 noon Business meetings (information sent separately to Committee)
12.45 pm Alastair Murray (SCOT Chair) Introduction and Welcome
1.00 pm Research presentations
2.40 pm John Skinner (President BOA) Data, Recovery and Technology
3.00 pm Coffee Break
3.10 pm Peter Bates (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon) Royal London Hospital. Nailing the tibia – everything you need to know
3.30 pm Sanjeev Patil (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon) Glasgow Non Arthroplasty Hip Surgery: Who to Refer?
3.50 pm Talk to be determined
4.10pm Meeting Close
Prize Winners!
We are pleased to announce the prize winners from the Summer SCOT Research Sessions. The judges were very impressed with the high standard of all presentations:
1st Prize: Katrina Bell (South-East)
Operatively managed distal radius fractures: complications and re-intervention rate from a single centre (KR Bell, J Balfour, WM Oliver, TO White, SG Molyneux, ND Clement, AD Duckworth)
2nd Prize: Hattie Pleasant (South-East)
Delayed ACJ reconstruction does not increase the risk of fixation failure or major complications (H Pleasant, P Robinson, CM Robinson, JA Nicholson)
3rd Prize: Luke Farrow (North)
Use of pre-operative EUROQOL FIVE-DIMENSION (EQ-5D) scores to prioritise patients for elective hip and knee arthroplasty in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (L Farrow, J Redmore, P Talukdar, GP Ashcroft)
New Clinical Guideline launched
SCOT is pleased to announce the launch of its new Clinical Guideline: “Joint Replacement in Patients with Obesity and other Modifiable Risk Factors”. To read and download it, click here.
Winter SCOT Meeting 2022
SAVE THE DATE: 28 to 29 January 2022
Location: Crieff Hydro Hotel
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Summer SCOT 2021
Date: 3 September 2021
Location: Dunblane Hydro
Time: 10am coffee for 10:45 start (Committee meeting 0830)
Online Booking: Click Here to Book Ticket
We are pleased to announce that the Summer SCOT Meeting will take place in person once again. Please see the Programme above for details of timing and speakers.
We are grateful for support from the following sponsors:
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Winter SCOT 2021 – Prizewinners
We are pleased to announce the following Registrar Free Papers were awarded prizes at the Winter SCOT Meeting on 29 Jan 2021:
1st Prize: Tom Carter (South-East)
Acute distal biceps tendon repair using an EndoButton technique results in excellent short and long-term patient outcome. A single-centre experience of 102 patients (TH Carter, BJ Karunaratne, WM Oliver, IR Murray, JT Reid, TO White, AD Duckworth
Joint 2nd Prize: Jamie Nicholson (South-East)
Three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction of sonographic callus: a novel imaging modality for early evaluation of fracture healing (JA Nicholson, WM Oliver, F Perks, T Macgillivray, CM Robinson, AHRW Simpson)
Joint 2nd Prize: Luke Farrow (North)
Future demand for primary hip and knee arthroplasty in Scotland (L Farrow, S Gaba, GP Ashcroft)
Winter Virtual SCOT Meeting 2021
Date: Friday 29/1/2021
Morning Meetings 10am to 12pm (link details to follow…):
- Committee
- Paediatric
- Shoulder
Main Meeting: 12.15pm to 4.30pm
Location: Zoom Webinar – look out for registration details in January 2021.
Registration: Click Here
Main Sponsor: Depuy Synthes
Although the team are disappointed to announce that the 2021 Winter SCOT Meeting will take place traditional format, we are please to announce that there will be a Virtual Meeting. We will be joined by invited talks from Bob Handley (BOA President), David Warwick and Ciara Stevenson. There will also be the usual Registrar Research Presentations.
We all hope that the normal meeting will return for 2022.
Summer SCOT Meeting
Date: Friday 28 August 2020
Time: 1pm to 5pm
VISIT MEETING PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Sponsors
Due to COVID-19 the Summer SCOT Meeting has been moved to an e-Conference format. It will cover the topic:
Scottish Orthopaedics in the time of COVID
The keynote speakers are:
- Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government
- Professor Phil Turner, Vice-President, BOA
- Professor Daniel Porter, Tsinghua University, China
There will also be the usual Registrar Scientific Paper session
To register, click here