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BRITISH HIP SOCIETY Affiliated to the BOA 35 - 43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PN Tel: 020 7405 6507. Fax: 020 7831 2676 BRITISH HIP SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2007 Officers : President - Keith Tucker Immediate Past President – Colin Howie Vice-President – Peter Kay Vice President - Elect:- Ian Stockley Hon. Sec - John Hodgkinson Treasurer - John Nolan Editorial Secretary - Peter Howard Web page Coordinator – Fares Haddad Member at Large – John Skinner CLINICAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS The BHS has reregistered as a body to recommend members of the Society for Clinical Excellence awards. To be a nominating body a society has to have a certain number of members and thankfully the BHS remains large enough to make nominations. We have now appointed a panel to review applications and to arrange the BHS nominations in ranking order. The panel is 4 members of the Society plus one lay person and will change annually. It will be the President / the member at large / a recent award holder/ a senior member of the BHS and a lay person. The panel will use the same criteria as the ACCEA ranking the nominations. Please see more information at .uk/accea/index.htm Our nominees in the past have not been as successful as we would have hoped. As a nominating society we are allowed to support 6 Bronze/ 3 Silver and 2 Gold nominations. It is hoped the BHS nomination process will be completed by the end of December 2007. Therefore the officers of the Society would request that anyone seeking support should submit their applications, fully supported by CV and the relevant ACCEA form completed to the Hon Secretary by the 23rd November 2007 [C/O The Hip Centre, Wrightington Hospital, Applely Bridge, Wigan, Lancs. WN6 9EP] The panel can then consider the applications and prepare citations well before the closing ACCEA date in January 2008. BUPA Insurance and Orthopaedics BUPA Insurance has recently sent a letter and a questionnaire