Benefits

Why should you join the CSP? How about Professional Liability Insurance (PLI) cover of up to £5million, support and advice from expert staff including a full time Students’ Officer, access to a fantastic online network and an automatic subscription to both the Physiotherapy journal quarterly and Frontline magazine every fortnight. These are just a few of the many fantastic benefits that come with your CSP student subscription.

CSP student member benefits

Put yourself in the picture and see what the benefits of joining are:

  • Professional Liability Insurance (PLI) cover of up to £5million – for clinical placements and electives (including abroad – except in Australia, Canada and the USA). For more information, please see the Graybrook publication Physiotherapy students and individualised insurance cover for practice-based learning.
  • Support and advice from expert staff, including a full time Students’ Officer
  • Access to interactiveCSP – a fantastic online network with live discussions, news items and knowledge exchange
  • Access to the member-only section of this website lots of things which will be very useful to you as a student are password coded and only available to CSP members.
  • A national voice: as part of a national organisation you’ll benefit from CSP’s high profile campaigning and lobbying for the profession, as well as CSP negotiating on your behalf. CSP’s extensive campaigning and work with UK governments has already brought frequent media attention to the current graduate job problem and got commitments - at the highest levels of Government – to find solutions.
  • CSP Student Handbook – your indispensable guide to being a physio student and the Employment Handbook – for all final year students, both available to download online
  • Subscription to the Physiotherapy journal quarterly and Frontline magazine every fortnight – worth £130
  • CD-Rom CPD Portfolio Guide and student guidance worth £42
  • Information and advice on all aspects of physiotherapy from our member helpline Tel 020 7306 6666
  • A dedicated newsletter for students
  • Local, regional and national student representation carried out by a well trained network of student reps and regional coordinators
  • Rules of Professional Conduct and the Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice available to download
  • Use of the CSP’s Library and Information Service
  • Joe Jeans Memorial Fund (financial assistance for elective placements overseas)
  • Specialist advice on working overseas
  • Your own student representatives on CSP Council, and on the CSP’s Learning and Development, Professional Practice and Industrial Relations Committees
  • Details about the 40 recognised clinical interest and occupational groups that represent physiotherapists working within particular areas of the profession; be they clinical, occupational or interest related. Many of these groups welcome student members at free or discounted rates.
  • Support from CSP Employment Relations and Union Services (ERUS).
For more details about these and other benefits of CSP membership, please download a copy of the PDF document at the foot of the page.

This text on this page was last updated on 10 Sep 2007.