#TUC18: CSP calls for strengthened flexible working rights
The CSP has called on the government to introduce the right to request flexible working from the first day of employment and to promote the benefits of flexible working to employers.
Team GB is supported by physiotherapists at the World Equestrian Games
Eight physiotherapists will be part of the British Equine Federation’s largest ever support team going at the World Equestrian Games in North Carolina, USA, starting today.
Sixth floor physios pledge to use stairs for a month, to back CSP campaign and raise funds for stroke unit
Therapists and nurses in Gloucester are backing the CSP’s Love activity, Hate exercise? campaign by shunning hospital lifts and only using the stairs during September.
CSP chief calls for rehabilitation based on need not wealth
The vicious circle between poverty, health inequality and disability is strengthened by limiting access to rehabilitation based on the ability to pay, CSP chief executive Karen Middleton told Age UK’s conference on later life.
Rehab physios in Scotland have made videos to improve consistency in walking aid provision
Two specialist rehab physios at NHS Forth Valley have created what they believe is the first video-based learning resource in Scotland to ensure consistency in the provision of mobility aids by healthcare support workers (HCSWs).
Physios urged to help charity in finding ‘missing 20,000’ people with CMT
A charity is calling for physiotherapists to help find some of the missing 20,000 people in the UK who may be suffering in silence from the little known genetic neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT).
Physiotherapists in Cumbria said the CSP’s Love activity, Hate exercise? campaign helped inspire them to run a residential activity week for retired firefighters.
