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October 2009
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	BHPR turns silver! In 2010 the BHPR will be 25! To mark this occasion please join us in Birmingham on Thursday 22nd April for our birthday celebrations. With a four course dinner, drinks and dancing, it will be a great chance to let your hair down, have fun with your colleagues and help us to celebrate our silver jubilee. Tickets are at the great subsidised price of £25 and can be purchased with your conference booking. For further information please contact the events team on 020 7842 0917. Nominations for honorary members BHPR is inviting nominations for honorary membership which is ‘awarded as a mark of respect for contributions to the promotion of high standards of care of people with rheumatic diseases.’ It will be awarded for a maximum of three years starting the following year on 1st January and ending 31st December of the final year. Honorary members will receive complementary attendance at the BHPR Spring conference and AGM, all BHPR communications and have access to the website. Retiring BHPR Officers are not eligible for nomination for honorary membership until a period of two years has elapsed after completion of their term of office on Council. UK and overseas nominees are accepted. Click here for a nomination form. Deadline for nominations is noon Monday 1st December 2009. Contact bhpr@rheumatology.org.uk if you have any queries. Call for papers from Rheumatology Rheumatology plans to publish a themed issue dedicated to registries.The aim will be to collate one collective issue of reviews. We invite contributions of original research that will add to this area of basic and clinical investigation of registries in rheumatological and musculoskeletal conditions. For more details, please visit the Journal website. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 1st April 2010  Breakout - a new resource for young people with arthritis  Arthritis Care have recently produced a guide written by young people with arthritis, giving practical advice on how to cope with the challenges of having arthritis. Go to the Arthritis Care website to find out more and download the Breakout brochure   National Audit Office (NAO) conference – Improving services for people with rheumatoid arthritis  The conference, taking place on Tuesday 8th December, will focus on the findings and recommendations of the NAO report, published in July. Dame Carol Black will be the keynote speaker. Visit the conference website for further details arc appoints new chief executive The Arthritis Research Campaign (arc), the UK’s fourth largest medical research charity, has appointed Liam O’Toole as its new chief executive. Read more. NRAS members attend My Day for RA Event in Barcelona  NRAS was delighted that eight of the ten UK representatives selected to attend the My Day for RA event in Barcelona were NRAS members. People with RA from across Europe were invited to share their inspirational RA stories. By celebrating what is possible to achieve with RA, it was hoped people with the condition would be encouraged not to accept the inevitability of the disease and to take control of their RA and of their lives. Everyone learnt a lot from meeting others from all over the UK as well as people from Spain, Malta, Greece and Argentina and enjoyed an informative evening with Jane Seymour.
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