Frontline magazine
17 March 2010 issue
Cover story
- Game, Set and Match
Andy Ireland talks to Matthew Limb about the joys of working with a top class tennis player
Author: Matthew Limb
Features
- Stand Firm
A major review has called for urgent action to tackle high levels of bullying and harassment in the NHS. Daloni Carlisle investigates
Author: Daloni Carlisle
- Stable Support
Working with horses can have therapeutic benefits, reports Colleen Shannon
Author: Colleen Shannon
Focus
- Keeping the show on the ice
Last month’s Winter Olympics were both challenging and unforgettable for the physios supporting Team GB. Matthew Limb talked to some of them
Author: Matthew Limb
- Brand Physio
Branding often gets a bad press.
Author: Max du Bois
- The BIG debate
Here we conclude our series of debates run by the National Leadership Council on key issues of leadership within the NHS.
- Collective action
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Clegg report, Graham Clews looks back at why it caused such outrage, uniting physios and other NHS staff in protest and victory
Author: Graham Clews
News
- Mapping MSK disorders
The CSP will run a major MSD awareness campaign through its national safety rep network this year, to help tackle the increasing problem of musculoskeletal disorders suffered by physiotherapists.
- Physio wins hearts of football fans
Tranmere Rovers fans are also fans of the football club’s physiotherapist, Les Parry, and can often be heard singing: ‘Who needs Mourinho, when we’ve got our physio’. [José Mourinho is one of the world’s top football managers]
Author: Joy Odgen
- Make a date with Congress
Why should you attend Congress? : How about to enhance your clinical expertise, boost your CPD and network with your peers, for starters.
Author: Joy Ogden
- Uncertainty over procurement plans
Health officials have suspended moves by primary care trusts in the east of England to re-organise community services, arguing that plans have to be reviewed in the light of new government guidance.
Author: Matthew Limb
- You read it in Frontline first
Group cognitive behavioural therapy is clinically and cost effective in tackling low back pain, a major study has found.
Author: Joy Odgen
- Move for Health and get Fit for Work
Office staff searching for help on keeping fit and stress-free at work, and physios seeking to advise them, need look no further.
- CSP calls for answers on physios’ role
The transformation of the GP ‘sick note’ into the Statement of Fitness for Work next month will see physios involved in assessment.
Author: Joy Odgen
- Tackling violence against women and children
CSP members were due to speak to a motion on violence against women at the TUC women’s conference on the day that the Department of Health announced new measures to help NHS staff improve their handling of the issue.
Author: Joy Odgen
- Protests avert ‘blanket cuts’ to training places
Draft Department of Health proposals to cut AHP student training places by 14 per cent will be reviewed following concerns expressed by the CSP and other professional organisations.
Author: Graham Clews
- Good outcome on Wales training places
The CSP in Wales has welcomed moves to ‘stabilise’ commissioning of physiotherapy student training places in 2010.
Author: Mattthew Limb
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