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The Cappagh Foundation Day will be held at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh on Friday, 26th May 2023 in the Lady Martin Auditorium. Convened by Mr Enda Kelly, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cappagh Kids, this year's event welcomes Guest Lecturers Dr Rachel M. Thompson, Associate Director, Centre for Cerebral Palsy (OIC/UCLA) and Dr Elizabeth W. Hubbard, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

In September, the Centre for Rehabilitation at NOHC celebrated its 10th Anniversary. Over the years, the Centre has helped over 3,000 patients to regain function and independence following an acute medical episode. Initially providing specialist rehabilitation medicine for patients of all ages, the Centre now specialises in caring for older adult patients transferred from nearby Connolly Hospital and the orthopaedic wards at NOHC.

Congratulations to Dr. Noel McCaffrey, a doctor in Sports & Exercise Medicine at NOHC who was deservedly named as one of the United Nations 2022 Healthy Ageing 50. He is one of a group of 50 individuals from around the world (and the only Irish man) recognised for their extraordinary achievements in making the world a better place in which to grow older. Dr McCaffrey is on a mission to improve our ageing populations' health and quality of life through exercise.

For most of us, our image of what goes on in an operating theatre comes from television and movies; we think scalpels, scrubs, facemasks, and beeping heart monitors, etc.