Category: Private

Please login to your BESS account to access this form.

As this year’s AHP Copeland Fellowship delegates, we would like to Steve Drew for the opportunity to attend SECEC 2024. During the meeting, we spoke about how your intention for this Copeland Fellowship, under your Presidency was to support BESS members who would not likely attend the international conference otherwise. I hope the individual feedback below reflects the achievement of this aim and provides a sense of the wide-ranging outcomes for us all as delegates.

The support provided by BESS to its AHP Members is invaluable in continuing to foster education, research and clinical excellence, to further develop the practice of elbow and shoulder surgery, ultimately improving outcomes for patients and the public. As AHPs, we form the third largest workforce in the NHS and similarly are committed to leading change, developing our skills, and driving improvement in the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations we work with. Again, I hope the individual feedback here also reflects a sense of the current and future potential of our BESS AHP Member colleagues in supporting the Society’s objectives.

We all look forward to being continued active membership of this welcoming, supportive and inclusive society.

The 2024 AHP Copeland Fellows

I feel so honoured and privileged to have been given this opportunity from BESS to attend my first international conference, which unfortunately without this funding I would have really struggled to be able to attend by myself.

I’ve always found BESS a hugely beneficial society to be a part of for its resources, peer support, regular emails, conferences and training days. However, this experience has been above and beyond my expectations.

I am even more motivated and inspired by sharing 3 days with international specialists and from forming closer bonds with my AHP colleagues and I just want to say thank you again to BESS.  I hope to repay the favour by doing something influential and purposeful for BESS to show my appreciation in the future.  

I would highly recommend this opportunity in the future if BESS were to offer it again and I encourage all my upper limb colleagues to join this wonderful society.

Emily Ayres, Lead Upper Limb MSK Physiotherapist, Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.

Attending SECEC as a Copeland Fellow was a real privilege and I was very grateful for the opportunity to represent BESS in Europe. Attending my first international conference provided a valuable perspective to my practice and high-quality learning opportunities, as I continue into the second half of my NIHR Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship. In particular, hearing ‘Elbow facts by Legends’ was a real highlight, particularly as I develop my application for an NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (DCAF) over the coming 12 months on the topic of elbow osteoarthritis. The fellowship also provided time and space to connect with surgical and AHP colleagues ‘off-duty’, an invaluable catalyst for my emerging DCAF project ideas and career development. I will now work to build on the contacts made during the fellowship as I grow a professional networks of elbow specialists to collaborate with during my future clinical academic career

Katy Boland, Specialist Physiotherapist, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

To be awarded the Copeland fellowship was a real achievement at this stage of my career and I am very grateful that BESS provided me with such an opportunity. I am at the stage of my career where I am wanting to progress further within education and research and so listening to other experienced surgeons and therapists at an international level was an invaluable learning experience. To hear from experts across the world and meet those who share a similar passion to me around rehabilitating and improving the physiotherapy care we provide for our patients was invaluable to my learning. To have the time to network with others in my field and share similar career challenges we face in the health service was also extremely beneficial and it has been lovely to be able to connect further with the other AHP fellows outside the conference. Thank you again BESS for this amazing opportunity and one I hope will be offered next year for other AHPs

Jeehan Lynch, Consultant MSK Physiotherapist / Shoulder Specialist, Solent NHS Trust

The Copeland fellowship was a real honour to be able to attend such a fantastic international conference, in a group of highly motivated and like-minded clinicians from the UK.

The SECEC conference was very high quality, and with so many options to attend talks and high standard papers the learning was great.  It was interesting to learn other countries priorities and dynamics.  The networking opportunity was fantastic, and the ability to talk and debate shoulders and elbows from breakfast through to the early hours over drinks was a real highlight for me.  I was able to exchange contact details with surgeons and therapists on an international basis with common research interests (for me especially useful as I commence my NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship – with a focus on conservatively managed proximal humerus fractures) and have planned further contact as my studies progress. So a big thank you for the opportunity

Helen Tunnicliffe, Consultant and Advanced Practice Physiotherapist / Upper limb Specialist, University Hospitals of Leicester

7-8pm Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Webinar slides