Frontline
21 April 2010 issue
Cover story
- The Big Top
Wrapping a leg around the neck is all in a day’s work for one physio’s clients. Graham Clews hears about life with a touring circus
Author: Graham Clews
Features
Focus
- Happy returns
Returning to practice after a career break can be tricky but help is available. Graham Clews reports
Author: Graham Clews
- Every angle covered
Graham Clews looks at what the MSK theme at this year’s Congress has to offer
Author: Graham Clews
News
- Leadership challenge
Physiotherapists made an impressive showing in the finals of the NHS AHP Leadership Challenge last week.
Author: Gary Henson
- Physio's pioneering work wins new award
A physiotherapist’s ‘pioneering’ work on orthopaedic trauma wards has changed the face of care in her hospital and made her a national role model, according to awards competition judges.
Author: Matthew Limb
- Extended Practice
Key points in developing a musculoskeletal ESP service are set out in a new competency document from the CSP’s ESP clinical interest group.
Author: Graham Clews
- Squeeze on jobs in Wales
NHS staffing levels in Wales face new curbs under Welsh Assembly government plans that come into force this month.
Author: Matthew Limb
- Hoists - safety alert
Physiotherapists are asked to help identify hoists and standing aids that may have been fitted incorrectly with a single insulated power cable.
- MPs Slam Commissioning
The purchaser/provider split may need to be abolished if commissioning in England is shown to be uneconomic and does not improve soon, says an influential group of MPs.
Author: Matthew Limb
- Master Physio
Cooking doesn’t get tougher than Masterchef, and physio Nargis Chaudhary toughed it out in the kitchen all the way to the brink of the final of TV’s most popular cookery competition.
Author: Graham Clews
- Viewpoint Keeping the egg on the spoon
Angela Brett, physiotherapy assistant, John Notley rehabilitation unit, St Mary’s hospital, Northamptonshire Provider Services
- In for the long haul
Physiotherapy Students spent Easter break cycling the length of Great Britain.
- Make it count
What are the main political parties’ key policies on health and the public sector?
- Complications come under discussion
Arthroplasty practitioners heard talks on what constitutes a postoperative complication and the best method for measuring muscle strength in arthroplasty patients, at the Arthroplasty Care Practitioners Association conference in Oxford last month.
Author: Graham Clews
- It could be you
The CSP is on the look-out for members to help shape European health policy, support the professional development of physiotherapy and learn more about practice at European level.
Author: Joy Ogden
- How to win £5 million
Consultant physiotherapist Stephanie Griffiths has been speaking about the challenges of winning a £5 million community physiotherapy services contract.
Author: Matthew Limb
- Renewals deadline looms
With less than a month to go to the deadline, a quarter of physiotherapists had still to submit their Health Professions Council registration renewal forms as Frontline went to press.
Author: Graham Clews
- NICE work
Two physiotherapists have been recognised with new awards from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Author: Gary Henson
- Society backs action on violence against women
The CSP has welcomed the government’s pledge to improve the NHS’s handling of violence against women and children.
Author: Matthew Limb
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