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After four years of physiotherapy Ann Rowe, a previously wheelchair-bound care home resident, has taken part in her first 5km race at the age of 87.

Amanda Hensman-Crook’s pioneering work developing a first point of contact specialist physio role in GP clinics has been shortlisted for a Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) service innovation award.

Public Health England has published a resource pack to accompany its Falls and fracture consensus statement: supporting commissioning through prevention, published in January. 

CSP responds to The Sun article which suggests the government will lift the public sector pay cap

Members are encouraged to nominate physiotherapy support workers for the UK-wide Our Health Heroes Awards 2017 by 15 September.

The CSP’s senior negotiating officer Claire Ronald took a leading role in speaking out against proposals to axe £70m from Northern Ireland’s health services during a recent interview for BBC Radio Ulster.

More than one million fit notes for musculoskeletal (MSK) problems were issued in England from December 2014 to this March – adding ballast to the CSP’s push for physiotherapists to be allowed to sign patients off work.

Physiotherapy staff will get a 20 per cent discount on orthopaedic products as part of a deal between Neo G and the CSP.

After four years of physiotherapy Ann Rowe, a care home resident who used a wheelchair, has taken part in her first 5km race at the age of 87.

The CSP has welcomed the government’s launch on 28 August of a national scheme to help physiotherapists and other allied health professionals (AHPs) on career breaks to return to work.