Dear Member,
This week we held a fantastic follow-up x-ray event with Inger Roug after her being unable to join us at Spring Conference. We hope it was of great value to those who joined and thank you for engaging in reviewing the cases together. If you were unable to make it and don't want to miss out, we are offering the recording post-event to members at the original ticket price. The recording is available through Head Office, so please get in touch by email if you wish to receive a copy of the playback.
Up next week we have our new Growth Series launching for 2022, opening with the fantastic guest speaker Dr. Carolyn Griffin! Registration is FREE to all members and more info can be found below.
Lastly, the UCA are very saddened to hear the news of the passing of Criss Partridge on Monday 21st March. Criss has been a long standing member of the UCA and a regular face at UCA events, he had an amazing passion for chiropractic and Disney that always stood out! His family have remained open at Edwinstowe Chiropractic to continue serving their community in honour of Criss and are in desperate need of help from a locum. If you are able to support them, please reach out to the team.
X-RAY CASE STUDIES
In the formulation of the recent guidelines for diagnostic imaging published by the GCC on the 2nd March concerns were raised by the UCA and our membership that the use of imaging was being limited particularly to “Red Flags” and that important information that may impact on care and patient safety may be missed. We supplied in our submission for the November 2021 consultation examples of such findings that were detected when X-rays were requested for reasons beyond just “Red Flags”. We realised that whilst members commented that in many instances X-Rays had proved useful in giving added relevant information that there is scope to have better reporting of such cases. We thought that for the benefit and education of the profession and other professions that we collaborate with, improving the evidence base of such examples would be helpful in the contemporary use of diagnostic imaging by Chiropractors. If you have your own X-ray installation or refer for imaging and have cases where findings were detected that positively impacted on how you cared for or could have impacted on patient safety, then we invite you to submit them to the UCA.
It will not take long, and we have included a standardised template and consent form to make it time efficient for you. All patient data would need to be anonymised and patient consent gained in advance of usage. The case study can be brief, and we encourage you to include presenting complaints, any significant exam findings as well include x-ray images with all personal identifying data removed from the patient data. The UCA with your permission may share some of these case studies with the membership through our various publications. Please email head office at contact@unitedchiropractic.org if you need any support in this matter.
Documents to download:
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Yours in Health,
UCA Head Office Team
