MSK Clinical Support Tools
Cutting clinical variation and improving patient care.
Clinical expertise
"It's great being able to reassure the patient from the outset that they are receiving the right treatment."
Sue Campbell, Senior Physiotherapist, who developed the lateral epicondylitis guideline
The problem
Clinical Variation
Clinical supervision is subjective and limited monitoring Clinical supervision has been proven to promote a healthy culture for development, improve competence of staff and reduce clinician stress and sickness rates, but NOT been proven to address variation in practice.
Patients should have equity of access to care across the UK regardless of where the live
Patients who live in areas of deprivation are much less likely to have a knee or hip replacement than from affluent population areas.*
Information overload
7,000 good quality MSK Randomised Control Trails are produced per YEAR in English alone
It takes 17 years to translate evidence based practice into routline clinical practice and National Clinical Guidelines produce updates every 3 years
10/10 Traffic light system - covering what to do and what not to do
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