About Us

Who Are We?

Founded in 2005, the main purpose is to bring together practitioners involved in the care of patients who have joint disease. Our membership is made up of non-medical healthcare professionals working in extended roles as part of the team caring for arthroplasty patients in a variety of settings. Members are involved in a range of clinical, research, education and leadership roles. We provide training days around the UK and mentoring and a website resource.

Our Aims

• To provide a forum for discussion on the national agendas affecting our patients.
  
• To support training of our members including an annual meeting for educational purposes.
  
• To work with the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and associated specialist societies to achieve common goals
  
• To support joint registries including the National Joint Registry (NJR) ,the Scottish Arthroplasty Project (SAP) and the Bone and Joint Infection Registry (BAJIR) among others.
  
• To promote research.
  

Links

ACPA is:

• affiliated with the BOA, and has close links with the British Hip Society and the British Association of Knee Surgery.
  
• working to form links with associations representing nurses, physiotherapists and other health professionals.
  

Membership

Membership is open to all non-medical health care professionals involved in the care of patients with joint problems. The application form may be downloaded from the Membership section of this website. Membership is renewable annually on 1st October, however any member who has not renewed by the end of the year will be blocked form the site and not eligible for preferential rates for meetings. The annual membership fee is used to support education of members and development of the association

Constitution

The ACPA constitution may be read or downloaded from the Membership page.