We are pleased to provided updated information for the forthcoming Winter SCOT Meeting

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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

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.

Home | STEP (steportho.co.uk)

Location: Dunblane Hydro Hotel
Date: 2 September 2022

Registration – click here

We are grateful for the following organisations for their support:

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.

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)

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

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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

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.

SAVE THE DATE: 28 to 29 January 2022

Location: Crieff Hydro Hotel

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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.