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  • Nuffield Trust calls on physios to help patients use NHS digital services

    Increasing patient uptake of NHS digital services will require effort on the part of physiotherapists and other staff, according to a report by the Nuffield Trust.

    News — 22 November 2016 - 4:54pm
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    Nuffield Trust calls on physios to help patients use NHS digital services
  • ER-WCPT: Uncertainty remains over physio mobility in a post-Brexit Europe

    The impact of Brexit on physios who want to work in the UK, or to work in another European country, still remained uncertain, Ronald Craps, vice chair of ER-WCT told a large fringe meeting.

    News — 22 November 2016 - 3:08pm
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    ER-WCPT: Uncertainty remains over physio mobility in a post-Brexit Europe
  • CSP awards accolades to physiotherapy champions

    Five coveted CSP awards were made in recognition of services to physiotherapy.

    News — 22 November 2016 - 12:19pm
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    CSP awards accolades to physiotherapy champions
  • ER-WCPT: Comic physio takes a serious look at incontinence

    The conference drew to a rather quirky close with physio-cum-stand-up comic Elaine Miller, who's made her name on the comedy circuit talking about the unlikely subject of female incontinence.

    News — 21 November 2016 - 2:25pm
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    ER-WCT: Elaine Miller
  • ER-WCPT: Don't treat all patients the same, says incoming WCPT chief exec

    While physios need to look at how they provide equality in the services they offer, that doesn't mean all people should be treated as equal, Jonathon Kruger, recently appointed chief executive at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, told delegates.

    News — 21 November 2016 - 1:55pm
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    ER-WCPT Jonathon Kruger
  • ER-WCPT: Go beyond just embracing the technology revolution, says professor

    Physios and other health care professionals need to go one step further than just using new technology for their patients. They also need to change patterns of working to reflect the possibilities for healthcare delivery that such innovations offer.

    News — 21 November 2016 - 1:36pm
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    ER-WCPT: Brian Caulfield
  • ER-WCPT: Dublin dean talks of tool to help with wearable tech pilots

    Brian Caulfield, dean of physiotherapy at University College Dublin, warned physiotherapists to be extremely cautious about including activity sensors into their practice.

    News — 18 November 2016 - 4:53pm
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    ER-WCPT Dublin dean talks of tool to help with wearable tech pilots
  • ER-WCPT: Health professionals must agitate for action on obesity, says expert

    Healthcare professionals must agitate for government action to tackle obesity, a symposium on population health issues heard.

    News — 18 November 2016 - 4:42pm
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    ER-WCPT: Physios can prevent early death in mentally ill people
  • ER-WCPT: Physios can prevent early death in mentally ill people

    Physiotherapists can help address the scandal of premature mortality among people with mental illness, said Brendon Stubbs, head of physiotherapy at South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust.

    News — 18 November 2016 - 4:09pm
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    ER-WCPT: Physios can prevent early death in mentally ill people
  • Mental health physio runs across the desert for suicide charity

    A mental health physio has completed one of the toughest desert marathons in the world in which more than a third of competitors did not finish.

    News — 17 November 2016 - 1:12pm
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    Jon Woods Oman desert marathon runner