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The Saw Doctors performing at Cambridge Folk Festival.
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Taryn Richards of the Juniper Chamber Orchestra playing the flute.
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Lip Service Theatre Company (Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding) performing Horror for Wimps.
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Dancer at the World Performing Arts Festival 2006.
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Pianist.
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Here is an outline of what is required of a BAPAM health practitioner.
BAPAM provides free medical assessments and specialist referrals (including for affordable ongoing treatment) for professional, semi-professional and student performing artists with performance-related health problems. A key service is our Directory of performing arts health practitioners and specialists. This Directory lists health practitioners who support BAPAM and offer their services, either free or at a reduced price.
Via the BAPAM Directory we aim to create a national network of practitioners, available to performers via the BAPAM website. In order to qualify for entry in the BAPAM Directory, you will need the following:
- An appropriate professional qualification
- Registration with an appropriate accrediting body
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Interest in and prior experience of treating performing artists
- Attendance at a BAPAM Induction Day. This is offered free to BAPAM Directory applicants as a way of introducing you to BAPAM’s aims and operations.
- If you work in private practice, willingness to offer a reduction of at least 30% on your standard professional fees for performing artists
- Ability to demonstrate ongoing CPD training, including attendance on at least one BAPAM Training Day every two years.
BAPAM Directory practitioners will receive notification of dates of BAPAM training days and medical seminars. In addition, we encourage practitioners to become Friends of BAPAM so as to be kept informed about developments in Performing Arts Medicine.
To apply, download and print off the application form (173 KB Word document) or (48 KB PDF document) sign it and send it back to BAPAM with all the relevant information.
Your application will be considered by the BAPAM Medical Committee. If there is more information they require, you will be contacted by one of them.
If all is well, you will be added to the BAPAM database of health practitioners. Our doctors or clients will contact you when they have a requirement for your particular service. Needless to say, there is no way of predicting how often you will be contacted, but we can let you know how often your specialism has been requested in the past, or the proportion of our past clients who have come from your locality.
We provide an induction day for all our new practitioners.
If you would like to know more, do contact us in the office clare@bapam.org.uk
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