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Could you be a BAPO Champion?

We’re looking for BAPO Champions!

Could you help connect BAPO with your local Prosthetics and Orthotics team?

BAPO Champions act as a trusted two-way link between BAPO and their workplace. They share useful professional updates, highlight learning and engagement opportunities, introduce BAPO to new starters and learners, and ensure local views are heard. The role is open to current BAPO members across the P&O workforce, including prosthetists, orthotists, technicians, support workers and managers.

You do not need to hold a senior position, just be approachable, inclusive and enthusiastic about supporting your profession. The suggested commitment is approximately one hour per month, plus a short team update.

This is not a sales role; it is about making BAPO visible, relevant and accessible to colleagues.

Interested in becoming a BAPO Champion? Complete our Microsoft Form to express your interest: 

Submit your interest in becoming a BAPO Champion here

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BAPO Design a Prosthetic Limb for a Superhero

 

A huge thank you to every pupil, teacher and school who took part in the BAPO Design a Superhero Prosthetic Limb Competition. We were absolutely amazed by the creativity, imagination and thought that went into every single entry.

We received hundreds of fantastic designs, each showcasing incredible ideas about how prosthetic limbs can empower superheroes and change lives. Our BAPO Career Outreach Team had the incredibly difficult task of selecting the winners, and with so many outstanding entries, choosing was no easy feat!

🎉 Congratulations to our winner, Oliver Price from St Mary’s Middlewich School, whose school will receive a £1,000 voucher, and to our runner-up, Alexzander Kingston from Darnhall Primary School, whose school will receive a £300 voucher.

Thank you once again to everyone who took part and helped celebrate creativity, innovation and the amazing world of prosthetics and orthotics.

We hope you enjoyed designing your superhero as much as we enjoyed seeing your incredible ideas. Stay tuned for more exciting BAPO Career Outreach activities in the future!

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Peacocks Medical Group announces major expansion as it enters next chapter of growth

New manufacturing facility, cutting-edge technology investment and an expanded product portfolio signal a transformative year for the UK’s largest independent orthotics provider.

Peacocks Medical Group (PMG), the UK’s largest orthotics-only provider, is marking a significant milestone in its 123-year history with a series of announcements that, together, represent the most ambitious period of growth and investment in the company’s modern era.

Having doubled in size over the past five years, the company has opened a second state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sheffield – complementing its long-established headquarters and manufacturing base in Newcastle – alongside the launch of its own brand product range and a series of exclusive UK distribution agreements with leading clinical product manufacturers.

The 4,000 sq ft Sheffield facility, which opened early July 2026, will meet growing demand across PMG’s expanding national NHS contract portfolio. With over 47 dedicated clinicians embedded within NHS partner Trusts across the UK and more than 60 skilled technicians operating from its Newcastle site, the company has the clinical and technical infrastructure to deliver at scale. Sheffield will increase that capacity by 30%.

The new site also marks PMG’s commitment to next-generation manufacturing. Both facilities are transitioning to high-technology, automated production methods — incorporating 3D manufacturing technology and robotics. This investment is not incremental but is a fundamental shift in how PMG makes products, designed to ensure patients receive what they need, on time, every time.

Alongside its manufacturing expansion, PMG is launching its own branded product range and entering into a number of exclusive UK distribution agreements with specialist manufacturers and products such as Wellwalking, Fito, On Zen and MediRoyal, with several other agreements in advanced stages.

These partnerships bring new clinical technologies, data-driven cost-effective products and expanded patient choice to PMG and NHS clinicians and commissioners.

Together, these additions enable access to a broader, more sophisticated product offering, curated, quality-assured and supported by PMG’s clinical expertise.

David Stevens, CEO, Peacocks Medical Group, said: “This is a defining moment for Peacocks Medical Group. Our growth over the past five years reflects the trust that NHS partners have placed in us and this investment is our commitment to earning more of it. With Sheffield operational, our technology programme under way and a genuinely exciting product range coming to market, we are better placed than ever to deliver for patients.

“With a national footprint, a 123-year heritage and a clear strategy for the years ahead, Peacocks MedicaL Group enters this next phase as a stronger, faster and more capable organisation – one built to deliver life-changing orthotics to more patients, better.”

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Picture caption: David Stevens, CEO, Peacocks Medical Group

About Peacocks Medical Group
Peacocks Medical Group is the UK’s largest dedicated orthotics provider, with over 123 years of clinical and manufacturing expertise. Operating NHS contracts throughout the UK, PMG employs 47 specialist clinicians working within NHS partner Trusts and more than 60 skilled technicians across its manufacturing facilities in Newcastle and Sheffield. 25 apprentices and trainees have been appointed at the Newcastle site in the past 3 years.

 

For more information contact David Stevens, CEO or Rachel Seller, Clinical Services & Commercial Director

Issued on behalf of Peacocks Medical Group by Sarah O’Mahoney at Bradley O’Mahoney. 07496101754