We need enthusiastic, passionate individuals to ensure these extraordinary changes to service delivery in Musculoskeletal (MSK) services are achieved with patients at the heart of the model.
MSK services support people who are affected by and living with an MSK condition. MSK conditions include arthritis as well as other nerve, muscle and tendon disorders that can result in pain, reduced function and a reduction in someone’s well-being. They can affect over 17 million people across the UK and in an aging population, many individuals are living with a combination of other health concerns alongside MSK conditions.
Across Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, our services are changing. We are building better than ever MSK services, providing early access to treatment, with a key ethos of enabling people to help themselves. Allied Health Professional (AHP) teams are a key part of this transformation. AHPs are 13 individual professions allied by their belief in the importance of enabling people to manage their own wellbeing.
To help us transform MSK AHP services we need passionate clinical and administrative team members like you, to support more integrated working between MSK AHP teams, primary care, urgent care and secondary care services such as orthopaedics and rheumatology.
The first workstream of the musculoskeletal transformation programme is the development of:
- A community MSK AHP Hub for self-referral and triage of requests for help.
- A network of therapists working within community services consisting of core MSK AHP outpatient services, the MSK Hub, Urgent Primary Care and Minor Injury services.