Frontline

16 June 2010 issue

Features

  • Beyond the call of duty
    Physiotherapists do not have to be at the top of organisations to effect considerable improvements in patient care. Daloni Carlisle spoke to two who started by challenging established Patterns
    Author: Daloni Carlisle

Focus

  • Star line-up
    Matthew Limb introduces some of the cutting-edge speakers at Congress 2010.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Get Chartered
    Chartered status gives you an advantage in the jobs market and much more besides. Graham Clews and Joy Ogden report
    Author: Joy Ogden & Graham Clews
  • Country matters
    Matthew Limb looks at the CSP’s vital policy and public affairs work in the three devolved countries
    Author: Matthew Limb

News

  • Spreading the word
    The CSP has signed up to a campaign to ensure everyone in the world has access to an informed healthcare provider by 2015.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Leadership proves popular
    Applications for places on the AHP Leadership Challenge seminars rose from 430 last year to 762 in 2010, says the Department of Health.
  • Counting value
    The CSP has developed an economic modelling tool that allows NHS managers to calculate the economic value of physiotherapy services using a solid evidence base.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • View across the channel
    The CSP’s international focus has turned increasingly towards Europe in recent years.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Latest from the library
    The CSP’s online library catalogue now has a cleaner, sharper, screen design.
  • Standardising data for MSK rehab
    Physios and other healthcare professionals in Scotland have agreed a shortlist of standardised data sets to be collected when assessing treatment of the most common problems in community musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Bands advice
    A physiotherapy manager who was facing the prospect of appearing in court after a patient was injured, has advised other managers to be aware of the risks associated with physiotherapy treatments.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Help needed to expand trial
    A team of physios who have developed a system to treat and measure pain amplification in children are looking for other physio departments to help trial their system.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Calendar girl
    Physiotherapist Melanie Turner is to become a forces pin-up after winning a public vote to appear in a glamorous calendar.
  • Charter aims to help see beyond the disability
    CSP members are playing a key role in a national campaign to improve healthcare for people with learning disabilities and end ‘discrimination’ in services.
    Author: Matthew Limb
  • Reality behind the razzmatazz
    The charity War on Want has launched a campaign to highlight the fact that South Africa’s poor will see little benefit from the vast sums of money being spent on this summer’s World Cup.
    Author: Graham Clews
  • Hampshire MSK win
    An NHS organisation, Hampshire Community Health Care, has won a contract to provide a new musculoskeletal service in South East Hampshire.
  • Plans for community services could impact on jobs
    The CSP is urging members to play an active part in shaping community services as plans are afoot for widespread organisational change.
  • Physios can help keep people fit for work
    British workers are suffering physical pain as well as stress because they are working long hours, not taking lunch breaks, and going to work when they are sick, research carried out for the CSP has found.
    Author: Graham Clews

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