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Advancing Healthcare 2026

BAPO Proudly Sponsors Award at the Advancing Healthcare Awards 2026

We’re proud to announce that BAPO is sponsoring the BAPO Award for Evidencing Impact & Excellence in Prosthetics & Orthotics at the Advancing Healthcare Awards 2026.

The Advancing Healthcare Awards recognise and celebrate the work of allied health professionals, healthcare scientists and those working alongside them in essential support roles, who are leading innovative healthcare practice across the UK. For more than 20 years, the Awards have built a strong sense of community—recognising excellence not only through award winners and finalists, but also through the ongoing support of loyal sponsors and partners.

BAPO’s sponsorship reflects our continued commitment to advancing standards within prosthetics and orthotics. This award will recognise projects and services that clearly evidence impact, innovation and excellence, making a measurable difference to patient outcomes while demonstrating leadership, service-user involvement and effective use of resources.

Submitting an entry to the Advancing Healthcare Awards offers a unique opportunity to shine a spotlight on the outstanding work being delivered across healthcare and to become part of the wider Advancing Healthcare Awards community and professional networks.

The Advancing Healthcare Awards are organised by Chamberlain Dunn, an award-winning events and creative design company with 30 years’ experience and expertise in delivering prestigious healthcare awards programmes.

BAPO Award for Evidencing Impact & Excellence in Prosthetics & Orthotics

This award is open to projects or services in prosthetics and orthotics that demonstrate clear evidence of impact and excellence. Entries should show how work has made a measurable difference to patient outcomes, involved service-users meaningfully, and used resources creatively and effectively to deliver sustainable impact.

Judging Criteria

The judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Making a measurable difference to patient outcomes

  • Sustainability, transferability and scalability

  • Effective leadership and team working

  • Creative and effective use of resources to deliver impact

  • Active service-user involvement

Submission Statements

Entrants will be asked to provide the following information as part of their submission:

  1. Project Summary (50 words)
    Summarise your project or service and its impact.

  2. Evidence of Impact and Excellence (200 words)
    Provide a fuller description of your work, including clear evidence of impact and excellence. Please include relevant metrics and outcomes.

  3. Use of Resources
    Explain how your project demonstrates creative and effective use of resources to deliver impact.

  4. Leadership and Engagement (100 words)
    Describe how your project demonstrates leadership, teamwork and engagement of relevant stakeholders and partners, including service-users.

  5. Sustainability and Transferability (100 words)
    Outline how the project will be sustained and its potential for transferability and scalability across organisations or services.

Submit an entry here

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BAPO Teatime Talk – Unified Approach to Footdrop

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Physiotherapists and Orthotists share a clinical commitment to the management of footdrop. However, there is often a bias in their respective approaches. Physiotherapists are often more focused on the swing phase and achieving toe clearance. This is reflected in their use of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). Orthotists appear to Physiotherapists to be more focused on stance and this is reflected in their (perceived) preference for AFOs. This Teamtime talk scopes out how the two disciplines can work more collaboratively to achieve better clinical outcomes.

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Tech and Trends Webinar – Powering Movement: How SpryStep Agilik transforms Mobility

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Introducing SpryStep® Agilik™ – an innovative, microprocessor powered KAFO, featuring a composite design strut. We will examine how this new technology can positively influence stance phase stability and provide powered assistance during the swing phase. Interested on how this can influence patient outcomes, we will examine potential patient groups and show some examples of patient case studies to better examine this exciting new technology.
 
During this session, we will:
– Introduce the Bionic Power and Thuasne® collaboration.
– Provide a brief overview of the evolution of orthotic solutions for patients with significant neuromuscular deficits.
– Explore the Agilik™ Technology- what is it and how does it work?
– Explain how Thuasne®’s composite materials knowledge and Agilik™ can be used to optimise biomechanical principles.
– Discuss outcome measures and potential long-term benefit of using the Agilik™.
– Review some case studies and the outcomes of the SpryStep® Agilik™ on patients with neuromuscular weakness.

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Website Explainer Video

BAPO is thrilled to launch our new website explainer video. This video shows what exciting resources you can find on our website and what members can use when they sign in.

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Explore a career in prosthetics and orthotics

Are you wondering what career steps to take? Have you ever considered a career in prosthetics and orthotics? There are a world of possibilities embarking in a career in prosthetics and orthotics and opportunities to work with a wide range of people. If you have practical and problem solving skills, a career in P&O could be for you. Watch our newly developed animation. This resource is for schools, colleges and career events.