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CSP position statements, briefings and consultation responses

CSP position statements, consultation responses, briefings and guidance across a wide range of policy and professional areas.

  • Anticipatory Care - response to service specification consultation

    As part of the next phase of rolling out the long term plan, NHS England consulted on 5 service specifications.  Each sets out important changes to the delivery of primary and community services from April 2020, with implications for physiotherapy.  Read the highlights and download full response.

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  • Enhanced Health in Care Homes – response to service specification consultation

    As part of the next phase of rolling out the long term plan, NHS England consulted on 5 service specifications.  Each sets out important changes to the delivery of primary and community services from April 2020, with implications for physiotherapy.  Read the highlights and download full response.

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  • Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss

    As specialists in Musculoskeletal health, physiotherapists are perfectly positioned to support employees to return to, or remain in work, where there might otherwise be significant employment consequences.

    In 2017, Musculoskeletal problems were the second most common cause of sickness absence

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  • Advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) apprenticeship implementation: Guidance for CSP members

    It is important that physiotherapy engages with opportunities to use the ACP apprenticeship to meet workforce development needs. 

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  • CSP’s position on the ‘shortage occupations’ list

    The 'shortage occupations' list determines which occupations get preferential treatment in the allocation of visas for overseas workers. It is drawn up by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), a group of independent academics. 

    To be listed, a profession has to be:

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  • NHS England Legislation Engagement - CSP Response

    In February 2019, NHS England proposed a set of changes to legislation that they believe need to be made to implement the NHS Long Term Plan.  NHS England hopes the Government will introduce a Bill, based on these proposals, for parliamentary scrutiny. 

    Prior to further developing their ideas with

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  • Job planning: a tool to support safe and effective care

    Great patient care is dependent on much more than the quality and quantity of face to face time we spend with patients

    Job planning provides an opportunity to ensure all the elements that contribute to high quality care in your role are captured.

    It is applicable for the entire physiotherapy

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  • CSP response to HCPC fee increase consultation

    The CSP responded to the fee consultation of the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) in December 2018. The response raises concerns about the fee increases proposed by the HCPC, identifies how the regulator should seek to be more efficient in performing its functions, and highlights the risks

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  • Ageing well and the long term plan for the NHS

    NHS England is setting out its ambitions for service improvements for the next ten years, and a detailed strategy for how to achieve these over the next five.

    The CSP developed the response below for the plan’s aging well working group.  Chaired by Age UK’s director, this working group is

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  • Cardiovascular and respiratory conditions in the NHS Long Term Plan

    NHS England is setting out its ambitions for service improvements for the next ten years, and a detailed strategy for how to achieve these over the next five.

    As part of our influencing work, the CSP developed the response below, which focuses on the clinical priority areas of cardiovascular and

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