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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

Main Programme – 310824Download
Registrar Presentations Session ListDownload
Registrar Presentation Abstracts – Summer 2024Download

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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