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#CSPempowers student weekend: Use your social capital for networking and influencing
‘Physiotherapy is the best career you could ever have – it was certainly the best for me’ – Natalie Beswetherick, the CSP’s director of practice and development, told students in her keynote address about how to network to influence.
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#CSP empowers student weekend: How to look like you know what you are doing
How you represent yourself and the way you dress has a huge impact on the way people approach you and how you can be a person of influence.
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#CSPempowers student weekend: Take ‘every opportunity’ to campaign and promote physiotherapy
Going out and speaking to the public is an effective way to reach service users, delegates were told at the #CSPempowers student weekend.
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#CSPempowers student weekend: Students urged to harness their power and show influence
The importance of student empowerment was the theme of the #CSPempowers student weekend, held in Leeds on 3-4 February,
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CSP advises on job descriptions for first contact physiotherapists
The CSP has drawn up a sample job description for physios working in general practice with guidance how to evaluate these roles against the NHS Job Evaluation system.
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Private physios prepare to collect outcomes data
A wide range of businesses involved in private physiotherapy are collaborating to develop ways to demonstrate the quality of private musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services.
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NHS Lothian physios promote pulmonary rehab
Physiotherapy staff in West Lothian joined forces with their patients to promote the benefits of rehabilitation for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness day.
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Stroke statistics make case for rehab ‘ever more urgent’, says CSP
The average age of people in England who have a stroke for the first time has fallen over the past decade, new figures show.
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NHS expert adviser gives approval for physios to issue fit notes
Carol Black, principal of the Newnham College, Cambridge and NHS adviser on work and disability, told Frontline that she backed the government’s strategy to enable physiotherapists to provide fit notes.
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PPA study day: Chronic pain may be a by-product of human evolution, says clinical psychologist
More research is needed to explain why humans, unlike wild animals, experience chronic pain and display their pain more than other primates do.