Standards & Guidance

The BOA publishes standards and guidance relating to professional and clinical practice issues within orthopaedics, and champions issues relating to high-quality care and professionalism. In this section you can find:

• BOASts – BOA Standards for Trauma & Orthopaedics
• BOA Reviews
• Fracture Service Redesign: Patient Leaflets and Videos

• Guidance

  • BOA Associated Guidelines – guidelines for which the BOA is not the sole author but has collaborated with other specialty associations or specialist societies
  • BOA Guidance Documents – covering a range of professional practice and clinical practice issues
  • Commissioning Guides 
  • Consultant Advisory Book – BOA document published 2014
  • NICE Trauma and Orthopaedic Guidelines – links to NICE Guidelines, Quality Standards, Interventional Procedures Guidance and Technology Appraisal Guidance relevant to different areas of T&O.
• Medico-legal resources – A selection of guidance documents, videoes and JTO articles on Medico-legal issues.

• Radiation Exposure in Theatre and Associated Risks

We also provide our online resources for supporting surgeons – through ‘Orthopodcasts’ on topical issues and guidance/support relating to reflection which are available in this section.

Additionally, you can find out more about our working in promoting quality care for patients:

• Two Quality Improvement projects that the BOA has been involved in (called HipQIP and QIST)
• The BOA’s work with emerging registries, called ‘TORUS’
• Beyond Compliance
• Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT)