Resuming routine surgery

Communication with patients on waiting lists

Update from 28th September 2020

The BOA has published a statement regarding its viewpoint on communications with patients on waiting lists and those with upcoming procedures. 

The BOA also published a statement aimed at patients, to give them some further information about how the restart is happening and what they should expect whilst on the waiting list. 
 

BOA Congress 2020 content relating to Elective restart

Updated 28th September 2020

Two of our main BOA Congress sessions have focused on the impact on COVID and members can view the recordings of these on our website. The sessions you may be interested in include: “Elective Orthopaedic Restart after COVID-19” and “T&O and COVID- the good, the bad and the future”.

Recovery of T&O Services

Update 27th July 2020 – NICE has published guidance on “Arranging planned care in hospitals and diagnostic services”, which covers NHS arrangements for patients needing elective surgery and other planned treatments and procedures (including diagnostics and imaging). There are some significant changes to practice regarding testing, self-isolation prior to surgery and also an emphasis on shared decision making. We have today removed our current BOA guidance on elective surgery in order to take account of this latest guidance. Read the full document or a short one-page version.

BOA webinar (13th May 2020)

The BOA held a webinar, The Next Phase: Recovery of T&O Services, on 13th May 2020 with expert speakers providing their insights into the next steps, challenges and opportunities associated with resuming non-urgent T&O services in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.  You can view the recording of the webinar below:

You can download a copy of the slides that accompany the webinar. Please note these slides should be viewed in conjunction with the webinar and are not meant to be viewed as a separate resource.

Resuming surgical services (May 2020 onwards)

BOA update from 3rd July 2020

The BOA has issued a guidance update on Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGPs) and PPE. 

BOA guidance: On 12th May 2020, the BOA published two guidance documents which look at a range of issues raised by the shift towards 'the next phase': 

NHS England guidance: On 14th May 2020, NHS England published its “Operating framework for urgent and planned services within hospitals”.

BOA response to NHS England guidance: On 22nd May 2020, the BOA published its response to the NHS England Operating framework, raising a number of areas for clarification and further consideration, and sent a letter covering these issues to NHS England. 

We will continue to keep this page updated for members in this rapidly evolving situation.

NB We have a separate webpage available which lists all the guidance documents available regarding coronavirus in the T&O specialty and subspecialties.