Alan McGinley – highlighted the need for dedicated treatment centres & support plans Agenda item 4 Neil Basu, Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine & Vasculitis, Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist: ‘Towards a National Solution for Rheumatology Patients Disabled by Fatigue’ • Saw there was no clear treatment path for patients with chronic fatigue • Fatigue has a major negative impact on IRD patient wellbeing • Versus Arthritis funded trial to implement non-pharmaceutical care into NHS • CBA & PEP – both reduce fatigue severity & enhance overall wellbeing at one year • PEP is cost-effective for the NHS & reduces primary care burden & reduces societal costs • Success assessed 1 year on – holistic benefits of interventions, such as improvements to mental health • Health-economic analysis with NHS in mind when considering cost/cost effectiveness – treated it like a drug & comfortably met ICER measurement • Proposed a call centre across Scotland where people can speak on the phone to a physiotherapist so they can understand their clinical condition • Carol from MSK Network – noted the value of the research beyond rheumatoid conditions e.g. long covid • Ben from Versus Arthritis – noted that CBT was perhaps less effective than PEP because it relies heavily on in person care, rather than the model used, which was over the phone Agenda item 5 Martin Davison, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon NHS Lanarkshire, Vice Chair of the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit: ‘Good Hip Fracture Care in Scotland – Importance to patient, hospital and society’ • 22 hip fractures per day every day • Beds used by patients with hip fractures are more than stroke and heart patients combined – across Scotland in 2021, hip fracture patients accounted...