Talking Rheumatology – Details, episodes & analysis

What is the HLH Network and how is it improving patient care? 

In this inaugural episode of our Innovators mini-series, Dr Alexis Jones, Dr Matt Szeto and Dr Denise De Lord join Dr Lizzy MacPhie to talk about the Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Network, which won a 2024 BSR Best Practice Award. The network brings together specialists from rheumatology, haematology, infectious diseases and more to provide rapid collaborative care for patients with this challenging diagnosis.  

Our guests discuss the challenges of diagnosing and caring for patients with HLH, how they set up their own MDT networks to address these challenges locally, their Trusts’ improving survival rates, and the new GIRFT HLH pathway.  

Want to find out more? There are lots of HLH resources to explore:  

• Find out more about the team’s award-winning project 
• Listen to our HLH spotlight podcast for essential practical tips from Dr Jessica Manson
• Download a copy of the new GIRFT pathway and guidance document
• Visit the HiHASC website for more resources

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.

BSR has published an update to the systemic sclerosis guideline, expanded to include paediatric and adolescent patients for the first time.
 
Join guideline working group Chair, Prof Chris Denton, members John Pauling, Bridget Griffiths and Clare Pain, and expert by experience member, Sue Farrington, in a roundtable discussion hosted by Prof Ernest Choy.

Read the full guideline and download the summary pdf here. 

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.

Join Edward Roddy and Kelsey Jordan discussing the latest guidelines for treatment of gout, including the 2022 NICE guideline, which provides clear, evidence-based but expert opinion-informed guidance across all aspects of gout management that will hopefully improve the care of people with gout in the future. This episode is hosted by Marwan Bukhari, Editor-in-Chief of Rheumatology.

Find all clinical guidelines from the BSR here. 

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.

BSR has published two updated guidelines with recommendations for using rheumatological drugs during conception, all stages of pregnancy, breastfeeding and in men who wish to conceive. 

The guidelines have been split into two parts covering:  

• prescribing medications to treat co-morbidities in rheumatic diseases during pregnancy and breastfeeding  
• prescribing immunomodulatory drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding, including biologics and small molecule drugs  

Join guideline working group chair, Professor Ian Giles, lead authors Dr Mark Russell and Dr Karen Shreiber, and lay member Clare Reid in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Marwan Bukhari.

Read the full guidelines here.

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The team from Chapel Allerton Hospital (Leeds, UK) join us to discuss their new giant cell arteritis referral pathway, which recently won a BSR Best Practice Award. Listen to Dr Thurkka Rajeswaran, Dr Sarah Mackie, Kate Smith and Borsha Sarker as they present their GCA pathway and results, reflect on MDT collaboration and advice for other units, and consider next steps.  

You can read the team’s BSR Annual Conference abstract here: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac132.042 

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We’re joined by Dr Anushka Soni, Sarah Manderson and Prof. Raashid Luqmani (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford) to discuss their remote clinical management pathway, which recently won a BSR Best Practice Award. The team talk us through their pathway, cost-savings, and the essential role of their admin team, before revealing their PIFU plans.  

You can read the team’s BSR Annual Conference abstract here: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac133.114 

The case study on NHX is here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-info/digital-playbooks/rheumatology-digital-playbook/Remote-clinical-management-as-part-of-standard-care-for-rheumatology-patients/ 

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Dr Toby Garrood (Guy’s & St Thomas’, UK) joins us to discuss a three-part project to implement digital health in rheumatology, which recently won a BSR Best Practice Award. Toby talks us through the project, the process of developing patient personas to help test interventions, the benefits of a minimum viable product approach, and much more.

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Co-leads Dr Laura Coates (Oxford, UK) and Dr William Tillett (Bath, UK) join us live from our Annual Conference to discuss the new 2022 BSR guideline for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis with biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs. This episode is hosted by Dr Marwan Bukhari. 

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.

How will patients be affected by the 2022 BSR guideline on the management of paediatric, adolescent and adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy? Join junior doctor and IIM patient Dr Phoebe Rushe, Prof Hector Chinoy, Dr Alex Oldroyd, Dr James Lilleker and Dr Liza McCann in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Marwan Bukhari.

Read the full guideline here: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac115

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.

The 2022 BSR guideline on the management of paediatric, adolescent and adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy has been published, but what do you need to know? Join Prof Hector Chinoy, Dr Alex Oldroyd, Dr James Lilleker, Dr Liza McCann and Dr Phoebe Rushe in a roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Marwan Bukhari.

Read the full guideline here: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keac115

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BSR is the UK's leading specialist medical society for rheumatology and MSK health professionals. To discover how we can support you in delivering the best care for your patients, visit our website.