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Winter SCOT 2025 – Final Meeting Information

URGENT UPDATE – DUE TO THE RED WEATHER WARNING AFFECTING CENTRAL SCOTLAND (AND ADVICE FROM SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICE NOT TO TRAVEL) THE SCOT TEAM DISCUSSED WIDELY WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND TOOK THE DECISION TO MOVE THE MEETING TO AN ONLINE PLATFORM. MEETING LINKS WILL WE DISTRIBUTED VIA THE NORMAL EMAIL CHANNELS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU TOMORROW. IT IS DISAPPOINTING NOT TO MEET IN PERSON BUT SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT AND WE DO NOT WANT ANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY OR SUPPORTING INDUSTRY TO PLACE THEMSELVES AT UNNECESSARY RISK

AN UPDATED ABBREVIATED PROGRAMME IS BELOW – THE MEETING WILL ONLY RUN ON FRIDAY PM NOW

Date: 24 & 25 January 2025
Location: Crieff Hydro Hotel
CPD: Approved for 6.5 CPD hours by RCSEd

We are grateful to the following sponsors for their support:

Meeting Documents:

Summer SCOT Meeting 2024

INFORMATION

Date: Friday 6 September 2024
Location: Doubletree Hotel, Dunblane
Time: 10am to 5pm

  • Keynote Plenary Sessions
  • Hot Topic Updates (SHFA, SAP)
  • Registrar Research Paper Presentations

The Winter SCOT Meeting is preceded by the STOTS Day on Thursday 5 September 2024 which will focus on Ortho-Paediatric topics.

Keynote Speakers

  • Prof Deborah Eastwood, Past-President BOA (Stanmore Hospital, London & BOA)
  • Vittoria Bucknall, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon (Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool)

PROGRAMME & INFORMATION

Waiting Times for Orthopaedic Surgery Across Scotland

SCOT welcomes the work from the University of Aberdeen and the wider team from across Scottish Orthopaedics. It highlights the significant concern that SCOT has consistently expressed about the remobilisation of planned Orthopaedic care over the past two years.

Orthopaedic surgery is highly effective at restoring the ability to participate in life and work. For many, it relieves very significant impairment of quality of life. Current delivery across Scotland is variable and sub-optimal.

SCOT recognises the significant local challenges and their roots in the Scottish, UK and global context. Health systems across the globe continue to attempt to recovery from a once in a century event. SCOT welcomes the openness of the Scottish Government in its engagement with the Scottish Orthopaedics.

National Treatment Centres are expected to contribute to further recovery. Their capacity was planned before COVID-19 as additional capacity and as such they are only a small part of the resource required for our recovery. All Health boards must urgently provide credible insulated planned care facilities to ensure that ongoing activity can occur to redress the significant accumulated backlog while providing capacity for urgent cases.

Link to BJR Research Paper

STEP

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SCOT is proud to support STEP. STEP stands for the Scottish T&O Equality Project. The aim is to be the first national project to survey all surgeons working in Trauma and Orthopaedics in Scotland, to gain a snapshot of diveristy in protected characteristics, experience of discrimination, and factors influencing career choices.

We would be grateful if you could visit their website to find out more about the Project, and complete the survey.

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