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:
BOA Associated Guidelines
A resource with guidelines for which the BOA is not the sole author but has collaborated with other specialty associations or specialist societies.Â
BOA Guidance Documents
A resource for BOA guidance documents on specific, topical professional and clinical practice issues.
Commissioning Guides
The British Orthopaedic Association published in 2017 four NICE-accredited commissioning guides with the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS) and relevant Specialist Societies. These guides set out best practice care pathways to assist Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in designing optimal care for their populations.
Consultant Advisory Book
The book offers consultants a comprehensive guide to contemporary clinical issues and is aimed at helping all involved in developing, specifying, commissioning and delivering high quality trauma and orthopaedic surgery in the United Kingdom.
NICE Trauma and Orthopaedic Guidelines
This resource page contains links to NICE Guidelines, Quality Standards, Interventional Procedures Guidance and Technology Appraisal Guidance relevant to different areas of Trauma and Orthopaedics.