Mike Kimmons British Orthopaedic Association Chief Executive Officer What’s on the BOA radar?
BOA Performance 2015
NHS England Five Year Forward View
Commissioning guidance documents
Efficiency Agenda: Key areas of focus
Example GIRFT dashboard
Example GIRFT dashboard
Efficiency Agenda: Key areas of focus
Consultant Outcome Publication
Government to Health Education England Mandate 2015/16
HEE Workforce Planning Guidance 2015/16
Shape of Training Report
UKITE The BOA provides access to the United Kingdom and Ireland In-Training Examination (UKITE) held every December within training programmes as part of your membership. UKITE is an annual national, online examination providing immediate results to trainees with similar formatted questions based on the UK Trauma and Orthopaedic curriculum. UKITE has been an annual event in the post-graduate orthopaedic calendar since Currently it hosts a question bank of around 11,500 MCQs and EMQs providing a powerful educational resource with high quality, relevant and curriculum-based questions. This year UKITE will run from 4 th -11 th December 2015 ( education/ukite/) education/ukite/
Wikipaedics
BOA Instructional Course 2016 Saturday 9 – Sunday 10 January Manchester Conference Centre Registration Opens: 1st July The focus of the 2016 Instructional Course will be paediatrics with the opportunity to obtain clinical case based discussions (CBDs) in the following areas: Neurovascular injuries Painful hip in a child Painful spine in a child
British Orthopaedic Surgery Research BOA initiative to support the development of clinical trials through a grant to the York Trials Unit who will develop the BOA Orthopaedic Surgery Research Centre (BOSRC). BOSRC will help BOA members develop their research ideas into grant applications and help run commissioned projects. To be successful in research funding, the research question needs to convince the relevant funding body of its importance and relevance to the NHS. If you have an idea you would like us to explore, please complete the form available on the BOA website (
The James Lind Alliance
Annual Congress #BOAAC congress.boa.ac.uk 15 – 18 September ACC Liverpool