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Frontline magazine

3 February 2010 issue

Cover story

  • Design for life
    Ever wondered if car design is influenced by physiotherapists? Matthew Limb finds out more
    Author: Matthew Limb

Features

  • The supple Difference
    Physios are invaluable in the diagnosis and treatment of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, finds Daloni Carlisle
    Author: Daloni Carlisle

Focus

  • View from the street
    As a community-based neuro physio, Sarah Pickles sees as part of her role to encourage patients to leave their front doors, she tells Graham Clews.Sarah Pickles and Halina Baker jointly scooped the CSP 2009 patient-nominated Physiotherapist of the Year award. We caught up with them.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Beyond prison walls
    Matthew Limb looks at a growing service delivering benefits for prisoners
    Author: Matthew Limb

News

  • CSP offers even more for your money
    Members can now enjoy cheaper insurance, cut-price dining, reductions on hotel bills, and savings on days out, thanks to a new package of benefits put together by the CSP.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Working together to reduce health inequalities
    NHS staff and other public sector employees are to be recruited to help tackle health inequalities locally through improved partnership working.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Review of Clinical Interest and Occupational Group structure – have your say
    Members are being consulted over plans to develop collaborative working between clinical interest and occupational groups and the CSP.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • NI support workers get the CSP treatment
    The CSP is hitting the road with a series of recruitment and retention events aimed at support workers in Northern Ireland.
  • Physios help build effective team working
    Two senior physiotherapists are part of a new team of allied health professionals who have been recruited to improve the training of more junior staff and improve working across clinical pathways.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • TMD focus for new group
    Physiotherapists who treat patients suffering from temporomandibular joint pain have come together to set up a specialist group.
  • Competition probe ‘challenges government policy’
    The CSP is calling on the body that investigates competition within the NHS to halt its investigation into a primary care trust.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • ‘Help make it happen’
    The CSP is calling on members to help develop a new vision for the future of UK physiotherapy.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • New CSP banner to hit the streets
    The CSP’s new union banner has been completed by the UK’s best-known banner maker whose work has been included in a Turner Prize-winning exhibit.
    Author: GRAHAM CLEWS
  • GPs and physios work together to get results
    Waiting times for physiotherapy have been cut, the efficiency of consultations improved and the number of referrals increased, following close liaison in the restructuring of a physiotherapy service between commissioners and the physiotherapists providing the service.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • NI services face new threat
    Trade unions fear that a new round of health service efficiency savings in Northern Ireland could threaten frontline jobs and services.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Exercise for heart patients
    New standards for exercise and physical activity for cardiac patients have been published by the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Appeal for physio help in Haiti
    The headlines may be less dramatic but the need for physiotherapy is increasing in Haiti, where last month’s earthquake killed up to 200,000 people and injured 250,000.
    Author: Gary Hensen
 

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