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ACPIN conference: AHPs turning national policy into local practice
Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) are developing local strategies to ensure the implementation of NHS England’s AHPs into Action policy, according to chief AHP officer Suzanne Rastrick.
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Physio students and staff ‘climb’ 60% of height of Everest for W@W
Physiotherapy students at Coventry University have ‘climbed’ more than half the height of Mount Everest, as part of a stair climbing challenge.
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National award goes to Teesside Parkinson’s ‘one-stop shop’
A multidisciplinary service in Teesside for people with Parkinson’s has won a national award, which specialist physio Claire Ward described as ‘amazing’.
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Injury in elite sports: can it be predicted?
Arsenal Football Club’s conference on injury screening of footballers and other elite sportspeople showed divided opinion, even among experts. Graham Clews reports.
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CSP wins battle to retain final salary pensions on Isle of Man
Physiotherapists on the Isle of Man are pleased after the island's government backed down on threats to abolish the public sector pension scheme.
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NHS England will regularly collect MSK data by 2018
NHS England will need to collect more data about musculoskeletal (MSK) patients and services by 2018 in the latest update to the NHS Mandate.
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Liverpool NHS trust’s AHP strategy to forge links between physios and researchers
Cooperation between physiotherapists and researchers at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust could be strengthened by the trust’s first strategy for allied health professions (AHPs).
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CSP welcomes HEFCE’s confirmation of teaching grant for physio education
The CSP has welcomed the announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) that undergraduate pre-registration physiotherapy education will continue to receive some public funding in the form of a teaching grant.
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Ethnic minorities have fewer joint replacements, study finds
A study of more than 640,000 patient records shows that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to have hip or knee replacement surgery than their white counterparts.
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Sports clinic launches appointments app
A private orthopaedic and sports injury clinic has introduced an app so that patients can arrange appointments on their iPhones.