24 October 2012

Cover story

• Burns survivor Katie Piper inspires CSP conference

  Around 800 people attended the CSP annual conference, held in Liverpool from 12 to 13 October.

Views and opinions

• Burning Question

  I’m an associate member. Can I become a safety rep?

• Comment - Thank you

  Saying ‘thank you’ is an everyday politeness in our society.

• 2nd Opinion - future hospitals: an acute issue

  Professor Tim Evans argues that the hospital system needs an urgent overhaul, if it is to keep pace with the changing needs of patients

• Letters - 24 October 2012

  Get involved now by sending your contributions by email to talkback@csp.org.uk or write to Letters, Frontline, 14 Bedford Row London WC1R 4ED. Letters should be no more than 250 words. Frontline reserves the right to edit letters. Please ensure you include your name, address and a daytime telephone number.

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• Advice line - a pointed reminder

  Pip White looks at the importance of understanding injection therapy

• In perspective - influencing the local agenda

  Physios in the private sector can help NHS colleagues in the changing NHS environment, says Judith Pitt-Brooke.

• Corrections and Clarifications - 24 October 2012

  Four physiotherapists, not two, took part in the hit BBC2 programme The Choir.

News

• New party seeks aspiring MPs to ‘save’ NHS

  Physiotherapy staff and other health professionals are being sought to stand for election to parliament by a new political party.

• Prescribing rights to reply

  The Health and Care Professions Council is consulting on new standards for the prescribing of medicines by physiotherapists.

• Wales group shares handling guidance with rest of UK

  A new tool providing guidance on delegating physiotherapy treatment handling tasks to carers and non-clinical staff is now available UK-wide.

• Back pain book hits the headlines

  A physiotherapist received national press coverage after his book was launched during Backcare Awareness Week.

• CSP backs charter for staff who speak out

  The CSP is supporting a new charter that aims to improve support for NHS staff who ‘whistle blow’ by raising workplace concerns.
  
  

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• NHS recognises its heroes

  NHS staff who have been nominated by members of the public for showing exceptional compassion, effort and skill are being celebrated as ‘NHS Heroes’ at events throughout England.

• Major CCG reverses decision on patient self-referral

  The CSP has welcomed news that a major cluster of clinical commissioning groups have finally agreed to include self-referral by patients for musculoskeletal (MSK) services.

• New outcomes tool likely within a year, physios warned

  Physiotherapists in the NHS in England should be taking urgent steps to prepare their services for the introduction of a uniform system for measuring patient outcomes.

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• Trust is ‘railroading’ staff to accept new contracts

  The CSP says North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is using heavy handed tactics and trying to railroad staff into agreeing new contracts or face the sack.

• New campaign tackles arthritis myths

  Many people have a poor understanding of what arthritis is, according to the results of a survey marking National Arthritis Week.

• App takes STarT Back across the globe

  A new online app allows healthcare professionals to access and use the award-winning STarT Back tool from mobile devices wherever they are in the world.

• Screen break for two trophy-hunting physios

  Two physios from north east England missed out on £5,000 because they didn’t know enough about the classic televsion comedy series Last of the Summer Wine.

• Golfing physio hails Ryder Cup triumph

  A globetrotting physio who treated some of the world’s top golfers at last month’s Ryder Cup has described the atmosphere at Medinah Country Club, Illinois, as ‘breathtaking’.

• Therapy team sees discharge times slashed

  A team of physiotherapists and occupational therapists has slashed discharge times for older patients at a west London hospital trust.

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - dragons’ den

  Dragons swayed by sock’s grand potential

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Stroke

  More seven-day stroke services on the cards.

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Question time

  CSP officials took questions from the floor in a version of the BBC perennial. Here we round up their replies

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Health policy

  Death knell for the British breakfast

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Book auction raises £200 for foundation

  CSP chair Dr Helena Johnson found her many talents tested to the full at the conference.

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Physios need to adopt a new pain paradigm

  Physiotherapists should let go of outdated paradigms and stop dwelling on biomechanical tissue-based models.

• Physiotherapy UK 2012 - Patients and physios alike could benefit from personal health budgets

  Personal health budgets are here to stay, said Stuart Lane, personal health budgets adviser at the Department of Health (DH).

Focuses

• Nominate your rep of the year

  With only a few weeks to go until nominations close, CSP members are urged to name their outstanding ‘rep of the year’ as soon as possible

• Man on a mission

  Peter O’Sullivan has developed a new way of tackling complex back pain disorders.  Sally Priestley caught up with him

• Physio findings

  Janet Wright reports on the latest clinical findings

Features

• Exercising choice

  Robert Millett meets the physio behind an innovative service that links heart disease and lower back pain

• Feel the quality

  The print version of this issue of Frontline contains a summary leaflet on CSP’s quality assurance standards. But what are the standards about? Ceri Sedgley talked to Frontline’s editor Lynn Eaton

• A joint approach

  Robert Millett meets a successful multidisciplinary team running a holistic clinic for temporomandibular joint problems