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BAPO launches new service provision guidance
🚀 LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT
📘 Service Provision Guidance for Prosthetic & Orthotic Services
We’re proud to unveil the BAPO Service Provision Guidance for Prosthetic and Orthotic Service, a vital resource that defines what good prosthetic and orthotic care looks like — and why it matters.
✅ User-focused
✅ Clinically led
✅ Designed for commissioners, clinicians , and service leaders
This guidance sets a new standard for service delivery across the UK, addressing everything from an introduction to P&O services, the benefits of P&O services, current commissioning arrangements, and key aspects of delivery.
It’s not just a document — it’s a call to action to ensure every service user receives high-quality, timely, and person-centred care.
📥 Download now and join us in shaping the future of P&O services:
Job Advert – Colman Prosthetics & Orthotics – Clinical Prosthetist / Orthotist – Calgary, Canada
Job advert – Steeper – Combined Service Manager – Portsmouth
BAPo Teatime Talk – Empowering the Technician Workforce
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Empowering the Technician Workforce explores the vital role technicians play in amputee rehabilitation, shared from my perspective as a prosthetic technician with 10 years of experience, current workshop lead, and chair of the technician committee. I’ll discuss how we can build a work environment that is inclusive, encouraging, and collaborative—one where every team member feels valued and empowered.
Job Advert – External Examiner – MSc Prosthetics and Orthotics, Keele University
Job Advert – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust – Graduate Orthotist, London
BAPO Teatime Talk: AHP Day: The Three Shifts · From hospital to community · From treatment to prevention · From analogue to digital
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I will explore ahead of AHP day what we have to celebrate. We will take stock and consider what makes us unique and how we best serve our patients. I will look at what the 3 elements of the future shift and will be exploring opportunities.
I will recommend: – ways in which I believe we can thrive as AHPs in the future shift. where we should position ourselves and what I believe to be the key factors for AHP success. I will share some practical examples and ideas, and appreciate discussion through questions.
Apply to join the new Technician and Support Worker Committee
🚨Are YOU interested in joining the BAPO Technician and Support Worker Committee? 🚨
📅 Work to develop future opportunities for Technicians and Support Workers 🫵 We want to hear from YOU!
Please share with your teams and help us develop our new committee.
BAPO Tech & Trend Webinar: Assisting Hip Flexion with Passive Orthoses, enhancing gait kinematics and performance in Neurological Conditions
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Webinar Objectives:
Describe the basic Design and Mechanism of action of passive hip flexion assist orthoses
Explain the observed impacts of passive hip flexion orthoses on gait kinematics in individuals with MS specifically how these devices can lead to an increase in peak hip flexion angle in the assisted limb.