Effective Outcomes Recording in Prosthetics and Orthotics
Education
Centre for Advancing Practice Conference 2025
Dear colleague,
We’re thrilled to invite you to the Centre for Advancing Practice’s Annual Conference this November – our biggest and most exciting event of the year!
This year’s theme is:
#10Years3Shifts1Mission: Advancing Practice for the Future NHS
We’re moving into a dedicated conference week focused on collaboration, innovation, and shaping better outcomes for the future. We will have sessions throughout the week to ensure everyone has the opportunity to engage and participate. It’s a chance to come together, share insights, challenge thinking, and co-create solutions that make a real difference.
What’s Happening:
Date: 10–14 November 2025
Location: Online/Virtual
Hashtags: #AdvancingPractice2025 #10Years3Shifts1Mission
Across five days, you’ll enjoy:
• Inspiring Keynotes
• Interactive Panels
• Engagement Areas
• On-Demand Access after the event
Why You Should Join Us:
• Explore the 10-Year Health Plan and discover how advanced practitioners will play a pivotal role in delivering the government’s three key shifts.
• Gain insights from leading experts and seasoned practitioners, and uncover practical tools and strategies to address today’s challenges in advancing practice.
• Hear from a dynamic and diverse range of speakers from across England and beyond.
• Explore emerging trends, essential skills, and proven best practices through engaging formats designed to inspire fresh thinking and innovation in advancing practice.
Registration is open now!
We can’t wait to welcome you to this year’s conference. Let’s shape the future of Advancing Practice together!
Warm wishes,
The Centre for Advancing Practice Team
Confident Conversation in Research. Workshop for AHPs 11th November 10am-3.30pm
The AHP dementia forum has a key priority of research in our workplan. A key outcome of this priority area was to deliver a workshop in partnership with Dr Emma Law and Jacqui Kerr on Confident Conversations for allied health professionals. You can see on the attached flyer some information on the what Confident Conversations is about.
My email is to now invite you to consider who you would like to join us for the workshop and email me names of people who could join us. The workshop is FREE and a light lunch will be provided.
Date: Tuesday 11th November 2025
Time: 10am until 3.30pm
Venue: Alzheimer Scotland, 160 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH11 1DQ
It is a workshop for 12 AHP participants. Please let me know would you like to attend by 24th October. Contact Elaine Hunter
AHP Dementia Webinar 5th November 2025 – Connecting You To Support; Transformational Leadership In Action
Warm invitation to join the National AHP Dementia Webinar series – sharing practice, connecting people, connecting support.
The webinar will be held on MSTeams
“Connecting You To Support; Transformational Leadership In Action”- AHP Dementia Webinar
on 5th November 2025, 3:30 -4:30pm
Join us to hear the impact of three Connecting People Connecting Support (CPCS) AHP leadership roles and learn how they have supported local communities, the AHP workforce and integrated the voices of lived experience of dementia in Scotland.
Guest Presenters & Former AHP Clinical Leads for Connecting People Connecting Support:
Angela Pointon, NHS Grampian
Gillian Trotter, NHS Lanarkshire
Angela Watson, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Follow the link to register: : https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ca85152c-e063-41a5-b8a4-a364c532fc28@10efe0bd-a030-4bca-809c-b5e6745e499a
You can listen again to any of our previous AHP Dementia webinars by following this link https://www.alzscot.org/ahpwebinars
Glasgow Pectus Study Day
Tech and Trends Webinar – Safety and effectiveness of bone anchoring device BADAL X for lower limb amputees; a five years follow up study
BAPO Short Course: Orthotic management of early stroke
BAPO Teatime Talk: Raising the profile of the prosthetics and orthotics professions
Details
Raising the profile of Prosthetics and Orthotics is vital to ensure our profession receives the recognition it deserves. This Teatime Talk will explore how we can raise awareness, strengthen our professional identity, and showcase the value we bring to patients and services. Through outreach, education, and collaboration, we’ll demonstrate effective ways to raise our profile. Attendees will be encouraged to share their experiences and ideas, helping us build momentum together. Join the discussion and be part of shaping a more visible, valued future for Prosthetics and Orthotics.
BAPO Tech and Trends Webinar – A Practical Application of Digital Technology for Custom Orthotics
Details
Webinar Objective:
To give a broad technological overview to what is possible when using digital workflows to mill or 3D Print custom orthotics insoles.
Summary:
This session will include details on existing rigid and soft shell 3D Printing, including the emerging ‘variational geometry’ software tools for designing & printing variable stiffness in a single material (resin or powder). The session will cover FIT360 tools, but only as a backbone for showing how new technologies are being used in this rapidly emerging market. Suitable for those new to this tech, or more advanced users.
BAPO Webinar – AHP’s Enhanced Practice PgCert at the University of Salford:
We’re pleased to share an exciting NHSE commissioned AHP’s Enhanced Practice PgCert starting in September 2025!
This programme is available via both the fully funded apprenticeship and non-apprenticeship routes and supports AHPs to develop across the four pillars of practice: 🩺 Clinical | 🧠 Leadership | 📚 Education | 🔬 Research
🔗 Learn more about the programme:
👉 PgCert Enhanced Practice | University of Salford
🎥 Watch our overview videos:
👉 Short Overview – 10 mins
👉 Full Recording – 15 mins
📩 For more information or to speak to our team, please contact: ECPapprenticeship@salford.ac.ukthe team would be happy to arrange an online meeting or presentation for you and your team.