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I addressed some of the concerns that have been made recently around the role of FCP in primary care, this week in Health Service Journal. It’s very important that we don’t let FCP become collateral damage in ongoing concerns about the regulation of physician associates or the funding of GPs. The role is worth its weight in gold in terms of the benefits it brings to primary care – both to the wider team and to patients I made the point that FCPs have an entirely different role to physician associates and shouldn’t be bound in with the highly charged discussions over regulation

The concept that prevention is better than cure is not new. Promoting health and wellbeing, and preventing conditions from worsening are fundamental principles underpinning public health and improving the health of the population. The Essential Need for Prevention The rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes presents one of the most daunting public health challenges of our time. These lifestyle-related conditions are leading causes of death and disability worldwide, consuming vast healthcare resources and impacting countless lives (Parra et

I want to take an opportunity to update where we are and what we will do in the future to ensure we don’t end up in the same place. For the latest HCPC renewal cycle ending in April 2022 the CSP were alerted to the fact that 5,311 physiotherapists had dropped off the HCPC register. Equating to around nine per cent of the registered physiotherapy population. At each renewal cycle as a profession we do have a drop of around 1,500 to 2,000 physiotherapists, but 5,311 was a significantly higher number than usual. After receiving these numbers we began to receive emails and telephone calls to our