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NEWS FROM CSP
Historic victory
As we launch our new guide on Campaigning in the NHS, helping you face potentially major employment changes, Frontline looks back at one of the biggest ever CSP member campaigns.
March 1980 saw thousands of physiotherapists marching on Whitehall, angered by the government's 'dismissive' Clegg report: taking collective action.
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Physio wins new national award
Clinical specialist Katrina Kennedy (shown right) has won the chief health professions officer's Award for Leadership (England) for her 'pioneering' work on orthopaedic trauma wards.
Pioneering physio wins national leadership award
Protect yourself and fellow members
With increasing pressure on public spending, a new CSP guide explains how managers, members and stewards can work to protect the jobs of physiotherapy staff and the crucial services you deliver.
NHS finances: challenging vacancy freezes and staffing cuts
Fit for Work
 Move for Health goes into the workplace with the launch of our new Fit for Work leaflet: top tips and physiotherapy advice on staying fit and healthy in the office.
Fit for Work publication
Myth-busting: pensions
NHS Employers and the TUC point to a new National Audit Office analysis which shows that the NHS pension scheme is 'affordable and sustainable'.
NHS pension scheme 'affordable and sustainable'
Myth-busting: pay
Local pay bargaining is becoming fashionable again but as a new CSP briefing argues, it didn't work in the past and it won't work today.
Pay Briefing for Stewards 2010
Business case workshops
Get the tools you need to work with key partners in your local area to construct and use an effective business case: book yourself onto one of our upcoming tailored events:
Creating successful business cases
More news from CSP
PHYSIOTHERAPY IN THE MEDIA
Stiff Joints
The first symptom is often a painful twinge in the knee, or maybe some stiffness in your fingers. 'Creaky' joints can herald years of chronic pain. Chartered Physiotherapist Sammy Margo gives advice on the prevention of wear and tear, risky activities, and useful exercises.
How to beat your creaks
Daily Mail - 23 March 2010
CURRENT AFFAIRS
2010 Budget
Chancellor Alistair Darling pledges to protect frontline services despite the "tough efficiency savings" facing the NHS.
Health to deliver £4.35bn savings in tough Budget
CSP website news - 25 March 2010
Personal health budgets
A short guide on the implications for staff of personal health budgets has been published by the England Social Partnership Forum and Skills for Health. Drawn up by the social partners, including the CSP, it sets out some key questions for consideration by sites piloting personal health budgets.
Personal health budgets - implications for staff
SPF website - 19 March 2010
Mental health
Hundreds of NHS staff have been trained to help patients with mental health problems as part of efforts to reduce reliance on drug treatments in Scotland.
NHS champions new 'cure' for depression
The Scotsman - 17 March 2010
Welsh targets
A new generation of targets will improve patient treatment and outcomes in the NHS in Wales. Intelligent targets have been devised to improve the quality of services and ensure patients get better outcomes.
'Intelligent' targets will be geared towards giving patients better care
Western Mail - 15 March 2010
Budgetary squeeze
Government, employers and health unions including the CSP have developed through the England Social Partnership Forum a set of jointly agreed core principles on how the NHS can work together to meet the challenges associated principally with the budgetary squeeze.
The Workforce Challenge
SPF website - 12 March 2010
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