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BACPAR are pleased to offer a bursary to help cover course fees of postgraduate certificates, masters modules or PhD fees. The course must be relevant to the field of amputee rehabilitation and UK clinical practice

This bursary is intended to contribute toward the successful applicants tuition by partly reducing the financial burden postgraduate students endure through aiming to achieve a higher level of skills and knowledge in the highly specialist field of Amputee and Prosthetic Rehabilitation.

Please see attached guidance and application form for full details

This is the work plan for the current year developed from BACPAR's objectives.

The progress of the work plan is reviewed by the Executive committee at it's meetings and an annual report on our progress against it will take place at the AGM, 

If you have any specific questions re the content of the Work Plan please contact your regional rep or the BACPAR Chair 

BACPAR are pleased to offer support grants to BACPAR members undertaking research or improvement projects or seeking to develop knowledge and skills that would build towards or help progress a research career.

Please see the attached documents for full information and how to apply

Education bursaries are available to those who have had full BACPAR membership for two consecutive years i.e. have been a member for at least one complete BACPAR year.

Bursaries are not available to allied associate, departmental or student members.

Please see attached documents for full information

Just received the results of the NHSE Specialised
Commissioning: Prosthetics Patient Survey Report 2018 (as part of the Westminster Cross Party Limb Loss news letter) - hot off the press, not yet on NHSE website!
 

In view of the difficulties we have been having with the updating of the CSP sites, and therefore access to the conference information, the BACPAR exec committee have decided to extend the early bird rate until the 30th September.

Please see the link to this manual which has been developed in collaboration with several CSP professional networks -  including BACPAR - to support volunteers on the UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR) but with the aim of being relevant to all rehabilitation professionals interested in rapid deployment to austere environments. The content has been reviewed by a group of humanitarian medical and rehabilitation professionals.