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  • Staff survey shows bullying is rife in NHS

    CSP analysis of the latest NHS staff survey shows a worrying proportion of physiotherapists experienced harassment, bullying or abuse from staff and patients in the last 12 months.

    News — 29 March 2018 - 3:09pm
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    Staff survey shows bullying is rife in NHS
  • CSP influences international physiotherapy practice in respiratory care

    The Portuguese cardio respiratory physiotherapy community is sharing a CSP developed tool with its members after they translated it, demonstrating the international influence of UK physio resources.

    News — 29 March 2018 - 12:40pm
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    CSP influences international physiotherapy practice in respiratory care
  • North Wales physios complete marathon Parkinson’s film production

    After a 20-hour filming marathon, two north Wales physiotherapists have created a programme of evidence-based high intensity exercise videos for people with early Parkinson’s.

    News — 28 March 2018 - 3:45pm
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    Parkinson's video
  • AHP Suffolk picks up health and wellbeing award

    Physiotherapy staff at social enterprise Allied Health Professionals Suffolk helped their organisation to win in the health and wellbeing category of local business awards.

    News — 27 March 2018 - 4:20pm
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  • Palliative physio receives Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship

    A physiotherapist has received a prestigious fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust which will allow her to gain an international perspective of palliative care.

    News — 27 March 2018 - 2:19pm
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    Kathy Birch
  • Excellence of Powys physios recognised by awards

    Powys Teaching Health Board’s staff excellence awards for innovation and for young employee of 2018 went to two CSP members – Anna Belotti and Alys Reynolds, respectively.

    News — 27 March 2018 - 1:09pm
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  • Physios have an ‘amazing role’ in social prescribing – an idea whose time has come

    Allied health professionals have an ‘amazing role’ in social prescribing, James Sanderson, director of personalised care at NHS England, told a Westminster Health Forum conference.

    News — 26 March 2018 - 4:27pm
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  • CSP urges Student Loans Company not to recover overpayments

    CSP chief executive Karen Middleton has written a stern letter to the Student Loans Company (SLC) saying an overpayment error was ‘unacceptable’, and should be written off.

    News — 23 March 2018 - 4:11pm
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  • Smoke inhalation catastrophe reveals vital role of physiotherapists

    Physiotherapists at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust found that uniting their different specialisms was vital to the care of smoke inhalation patients following the Grenfell Tower fire.

    News — 23 March 2018 - 3:19pm
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  • Physio leads therapy team in campaign which cut 4.45 unnecessary intermediate care bed days

    Bolton NHS Trust’s intermediate care team has reduced patients’ average length of stay by 4.45 days since it introduced NHS Improvement’s Red2Green campaign in October 2017.

    News — 23 March 2018 - 1:48pm
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