Many people with knee osteoarthritis receive inappropriate care – including imaging, surgery and arthroscopy – at great personal cost and to the wider health system.
Many people with the condition are not aware of the range of non-surgical interventions that can help them avoid or delay surgery.
Please join us at a #CroakeyLIVE to hear from a range of experts with direct experience in trying to change this situation, through the development and implementation of clinical care guidelines, their own clinical practice, through policy and service reform, and wider health reform advocacy.
The webinar – from 5-6pm AEST on Tuesday, 13 August – will be held during the same week as the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care plans to launch its revised Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard.
The discussion will be moderated by Dr Elizabeth Deveny, CEO of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia.
Panel members include:
Dr Phoebe Holdenson Kimura is a Medical Advisor for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and is a general practitioner based in Sydney, working in policy and medical and health professional education.
Dr Nigel Hartnett is a specialist knee surgeon based in Naarm/Melbourne and works to reduce unnecessary knee surgery.
Danealle Gilfillan is an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist and Project Manager – HCF Best Practice Pathways in Knee OsteoArthritis Research Project, Canberra Health Services.
Scott Willis is the first Indigenous man to be elected as National President of the APA. A palawa man, he is co-director of a multidisciplinary clinic at Burnie, on the North West Coast of lutruwita/Tasmania. He has experience within the public, primary health, private practice, rural, Indigenous, aged care, and occupational health sectors.
Croakey acknowledges and thanks the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) for sponsoring the webinar as part of our #Medicare40Years project marking the 40-year anniversary of Medicare.
Register here to attend the free webinar, and bookmark this link to follow coverage of the #CroakeyLIVE webinar series.
