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  • Physiotherapy works: this device proves it

    A practical, interactive guide from NHS Improvement can help members to demonstrate physiotherapy's effectiveness. Making Data Count is designed to show physios and others how to make better use of the data they collect.

    News — 12 September 2018 - 3:13pm
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    Euan McComiskie, CSP's UK health informatics lead
  • CSP calls for Scottish staffing bill to focus more on patient care

    The CSP has argued for significant changes to Scotland’s draft Health and Care Staffing Bill, to ensure it leads to safe, effective and sustainable care for patients.

    News — 11 September 2018 - 5:13pm
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    Sally Gosling at Scottish Parliament
  • #TUC18: CSP joins calls to end the ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants

    The CSP joined calls for an end to ‘hostile immigration practices’ for the restoration of full rights for those affected by the Windrush scandal and full compensation for losses suffered.

    News — 11 September 2018 - 4:48pm
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    TUC18 Kate Baker
  • #TUC18: Time to plug the NHS funding gap is running out, warns CSP

    The CSP has warned that ‘time is running out’ to plug the gap in NHS funding and highlighted the problems the shortfall was creating for NHS staff.

    News — 11 September 2018 - 4:09pm
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    TUC18 CSP delegation
  • #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.

    News — 11 September 2018 - 1:08pm
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    TUC#18 Zoe Clare
  • #TUC18: Invest in ill health prevention, CSP urges

    CSP Council chair Alex MacKenzie today called for an urgent government investment boost to public health education and ill health prevention.

    News — 10 September 2018 - 4:36pm
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    #TUC 18 Alex MacKenzie
  • 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.

    News — 10 September 2018 - 2:15pm
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    Equine physio Vicky Spalding. Photo: © Jon Stroud Media/BEF
  • 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.

    News — 7 September 2018 - 12:12pm
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    Gloucester stairs
  • 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.

    News — 6 September 2018 - 9:22am
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    karen middleton CSP CEO speaking at a conference
  • Physiotherapists ready to radically change the delivery of health and social care in Northern Ireland

    The CSP welcomes today’s announcement by the Department of Health regarding the development of Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) in primary care.

    Press release — 3 September 2018 - 1:06pm
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