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Physiotherapists on the Isle of Man are pleased after the island's government backed down on threats to abolish the public sector pension scheme.

NHS England will need to collect more data about musculoskeletal (MSK) patients and services by 2018 in the latest update to the NHS Mandate.

Cooperation between physiotherapists and researchers at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust could be strengthened by the trust’s first strategy for allied health professions (AHPs).

The CSP has welcomed the announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) that undergraduate pre-registration physiotherapy education will continue to receive some public funding in the form of a teaching grant.

A study of more than 640,000 patient records shows that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to have hip or knee replacement surgery than their white counterparts.

A private orthopaedic and sports injury clinic has introduced an app so that patients can arrange appointments on their iPhones.

Despite funding pressures on England’s NHS, elective hip replacements increased by 90 per cent in the six years to 2016, says the King’s Fund.

A list of controlled drugs that independent prescribing physiotherapists are able to use is to be revised.

Arthritis Research UK has published a guide to physical activity interventions for people with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions aimed at commissioners and providers of local services.

A central London GP practice is still running physio-led exercise classes for NHS patients, despite the withdrawal of public funding three years ago.