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Frontline magazine

21 July 2010 issue

Cover story

  • A place of safety
    Women who suffer domestic violence often present to the NHS in need of time and privacy. Alison Moore reports
    Author: Alison Moore

Features

  • Beyond chalk and talk
    Undergraduate education is changing in response to technological advances and demands in healthcare. Daloni Carlisle spoke to two innovators
    Author: Daloni Carlisle

Focus

  • Use it, don’t lose it
    Graham Clews hears about moves to encourage career progression for BME staff in the NHS
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Satisfied customers
    The steward’s role can be stressful but good back-up from the CSP is making a difference.
    Author: Graham Clews and Sally Priestley
  • Sporting chances
    Graham Clews talks to those looking for sporting talent among people with disabilities
    Author: Graham clews
  • Mind yourself
    Alastair Campbell, Founders’ Lecturer at this year’s Congress, has dramatic personal experience of mental illness. Matthew Limb reports
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Set fair ahead
    With the yachting season underway, Matthew Limb catches up with the physio keeping Britain’s top sailors ship shape
    Author: Matthew Limb

News

  • Rewarding reps
    Is your CSP rep one in a million? If your steward, health and safety or student representative is exceptional then why not nominate them for the new CSP rep of the year awards?
    Author: Gary Henson
  • Prisoner campaign
    Campaigning group Justice for Colombia has produced a model letter that can be used to write to foreign secretary William Hague, asking him to look into the cases of three people who, the group says, are political prisoners held in Colombian jails.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • New website to go live
    The newly designed, improved navigation CSP website will be live by the end of September, after testing is completed.
  • Equality ‘should be more than words’
    The CSP has called on all unions to ‘push hard’ to ensure that the public sector equality duty in the new Equality Act is fully implemented and enforced.
    Author: Sally Priestley
  • Funding for WCPT congress
    A total of £5,000 is available from the CSP Charitable Trust for members presenting at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy International Congress in Amsterdam on 20–23 June 2011.
    Author: Gary Henson
  • Improving end of life care in hospitals
    Questions AHPs should be asking about their hospital’s end of life care are published in a new guide.
  • Field injuries
    With school sports days in full swing around the country, physios have warned parents about the potential perils of getting involved.
    Author: Sally Priestley
  • On-call payments
    The NHS Staff Council is consulting on draft principles to support new local on-call payment arrangements.
  • Shoulder pain study confirms physiotherapy’s value
    Physiotherapy alone does as much long-term good for a shoulder condition as physiotherapy plus corticosteroid injections, says a paper published in the BMJ. Injections do, however, help to speed recovery in the early weeks.
    Author: Janet Wright
  • Deputy role
    A long-serving physiotherapist has been named deputy mayor of Trafford, Greater Manchester. Labour councillor Jane Baugh is a senior physio in the musculoskeletal service at Altrincham General hospital.
  • Haiti awards scheme will go on
    The funding awards set up by the CSP for physiotherapists working in Haiti have kick-started a continuing programme of support for disaster volunteers.
    Author: Sally Priestley
  • Struck off for misconduct
    A physiotherapist has been struck off by the Health Professions Council for sexually motivated misconduct towards three women patients.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • NICE spells out stroke care needs
    New NHS quality standards for stroke care highlight the need for patients to receive minimum levels of ‘active therapy’, including physiotherapy.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Time to bring back rehab centres?
    Sixties-style rehabilitation units should be brought back and made part of government welfare reforms, according to a CSP Fellow and former vice president.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Changes to Change for Life
    The CSP has called for a long-term approach to secure improvements in public health as the government proposes changes to the funding for the £75million Change4Life initiative.
    Author: Gary Henson
  • Record numbers renew registration
    A record number of physiotherapists renewed their registration with the Health Professions Council ahead of the cut-off date, the council has confirmed.
    Author: Sally Priestley
  • Reforms ‘could change face of NHS’
    The government’s new health reforms could alter the NHS ‘beyond recognition’, says the CSP.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Olympic challenge to get staff on the move
    With the London Olympic Games fast approaching, Olympic medallists are lining up alongside health experts to encourage NHS staff to get active in the run-up to 2012.
    Author: Sally Priestley
  • ‘Enormous benefit’ of therapy overlooked
    An innovative and evidence-based treatment for stroke is being underused, says a physio who has developed a training course in the technique.
    Author: Joy Ogden
  • Stepping up to foot therapy
    Physios with two decades’ experience are more likely to use reflextherapy than younger colleagues, an audit has found. The treatment, using pressure points on the feet, is similar to the complementary therapy reflexology.
    Author: Janet Wright

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