Get involved in our Snowflake challenge this Christmas and make the new year brighter for Sheffield Children’s Hospital
It’s halfway through December, and time is running out, running out, running out… But we’re not too worried, because with two more weeks to go until our deadline, we have already met our two month mission target – to raise 1,876 in money and miles for Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Excitingly, we’ve raised £2650.00, and collectively […]
Webinar: How to manage bladder problems and UTIs remotely
Please note that all session and slide content are the views of the Speakers, not the MS Academy. The content of the recording is the speaker’s personal opinion at the time of recording. Due to the everchanging situation, advice given at the time of recording is subject to change. CPD accreditation This webinar has been approved […]
MS Academy Christmas Newsletter 2020
By Prof Gavin Giovannoni, Academic Director ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ……’ From ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’, by Clement Clarke Moore It is hard to apprehend that we are rapidly approaching the end of 2020, an extraordinary year that will […]
MS and post-traumatic stress – an invitation to collaborate on a new project
Shift.ms and Barts MS are looking for collaborators to develop and implement a project or audit around post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in multiple sclerosis (MS). Shift.ms have been aware of PTSD as having a role in MS after looking at post-traumatic growth at an event in London several years ago. Since that time, Shift.ms have […]
Webinar: End of life care for people with MS
Please note that all session and slide content are the views of the Speakers, not the MS Academy. The content of the recording is the speaker’s personal opinion at the time of recording. Due to the everchanging situation, advice given at the time of recording is subject to change. CPD accreditation This webinar has been approved […]
An interview with Riffat Tanveer: this year’s Raising the Bar poster runner-up
Neurologist Riffat Tanveer won the runner up award at this year’s Raising the Bar meeting for his poster looking at neurology trainee’s views on taking on MS as a subspecialty. ‘Of all the neurology subspecialities, MS is a booming landscape and management is very specialised.’ Riffat credits his own pursuit of MS as a subspeciality […]
White paper from Shift.MS outlines COVID’s ongoing impact on MS community
MS online community Shift.MS have published a white paper detailing the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the MS community as reported by people living with MS themselves. Sending out an online survey in September this year, Shift.MS received almost 1,500 responses and have used this to inform the white paper, as well as to develop a short awareness video, and […]
An interview with Natasha Hoyle: this year’s Raising the Bar poster winner
What started as an intermodule project for an MS MasterClass has proven an invaluable source of information about the local disease-modifying treatment service, and the winning poster for this year’s Raising the Bar conference highlights some of Natasha’s findings in her second year of auditing. Natasha talked to us about the scale of the work, […]
Raising the Bar for MS: Looking to the future
The aim of Raising the Bar for MS as a national initiative has always been to raise the bar for the whole MS community. ‘To improve MS services for all people with MS and their families, and make delivering these services for all involved a rich and rewarding experience.’ Throughout this year’s conference, one theme […]
‘No person left behind’: the current situation and a vision for the future
Raising the Bar has a vision of ‘no person left behind.’ Yet we know that we are a long way from this at present. At Raising the Bar for MS 2020, we heard from Saúl Reyes, one of the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) workstream leads, that a lower socio-economic status and older age were […]