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From time to time, my job is extraordinary - today was one of those times. A call from the CSP press team, and then the BBC and I was on my way to Broadcasting house to sit in a pod and talk to ten regional radio stations about the likely recovery and rehab for Prince Philip, following his hip surgery. Questions ranged from the risks of surgery at his age, to what would be included in a rehab programme to his likely attendance at Prince Harry’s wedding. The experience took me back in time to November 1995, when I was interviewed for ITN news, that time about the Queen Mother’s recent hip

Joyce Williams, left, speaking at Physio UK with CSP chief executive Karen Middleton I have been reflecting on the last session at this year's CSP Physiotherapy UK conference - a brilliant discussion that focused on our profession's autonomy. Joyce Williams, a key architect of modern physiotherapy and now in her mid-80s, described passionately how granting the profession autonomy in 1977 had transformed overnight the way physiotherapists practised. We are on the brink of a similarly momentous change, as CSP officers meet with NHS England (NHSE) to develop the commissioning guidance for first