Database by project
This page summarises services featured in Sharing Effective Physiotherapy Practice project. Fields displayed immediately below are: project title, relevant organisation and an extract of the project summary. To view full details for each project, please use the project title links below.
- A case-finding service to prevent falls & fractures in older people in Greenwich
Each year about 1,800 Greenwich residents seek accident and emergency care for falls related injuries, and 540 will be admitted. A project manager was appointed in October 2001 to develop specific work ...
Organisation: Greenwich Social Services - An exercise group for children with anterior knee pain in Tower Hamlets
Twenty-nine percent of all referrals to the East London Children.s Physiotherapy Service are for children with anterior knee pain (average of 30 per annum), who traditionally have been treated individually. ...
Organisation: The Royal London Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust - City-wide booking for musculoskeletal outpatients in Salford
The adult musculoskeletal (MSK) service provision within Salford has been re-designed over the past 18 months in order to facilitate speedier access, choice of appointment time/venue and standardised ...
Organisation: Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust and Salford PCT - Multi-professional triage teams (MPTT) in the Southampton area
In 2000, referrals to the orthopaedic department at Southampton rose to such an extent that patients waited an average time of 18 months to be seen. The need to look at the "whole system" was ...
Organisation: New Forest PCT - Physiotherapy and GP musculoskeletal interface clinics in Somerset
Somerset Coast PCT has 23 general practices and 93 GPs and a population of around 140,000. In the year prior to the introduction of the interface service our GPs referred 2,848 patients to the orthopaedic ...
Organisation: Somerset Coast PCT - Physiotherapy in the Farm Out Health Project
The Farm Out Health Project was set up in June 2001, as a 3 year project jointly funded by the High Peak and Dales PCT and the East Midlands Development Agency. Needs assessment has revealed significant ...
Organisation: High Peak PCT - Physiotherapy orthopaedic triage at Aintree Hospital
In 1998 the orthopaedic department at Aintree Hospitals had a waiting time of between 28 and 120 weeks for an outpatient appointment. A waiting list initiative funded ESP physiotherapist management of ...
Organisation: Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust - Physiotherapy orthopaedic triage in primary care in South and East Belfast
Since 2000, physiotherapists and GPs in South and East Belfast Trust have been working, in partnership with the regional orthopaedic service, to develop a new primary care service model covering a population ...
Organisation: South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust - Self-referral to physiotherapy in a Scottish GP practice
A 30-month pilot project aimed to develop, implement and evaluate self-referral to an NHS physiotherapy service in a primary care setting. It was sited within a Dundee city practice with an established ...
Organisation: Forth Valley Primary Care NHS Trust - The Airedale Backcare for Children programme (ABC)
60% of us will suffer from back pain. By the age of 14, more than 50% of children will also have experienced back pain. These statistics prompted a group of three privately practising physiotherapists ...
Organisation: Airedale Physio
