English Regional Networks

The CSP Regional Networks support you in challenging times and enable you raise the profile and influence of physiotherapy.

Networks are driven by core teams of members, and you are encouraged to find out what is happening and to be involved.

Current challenges bring opportunities, but only if members engage with decision-makers and promote what physiotherapy can offer.

At the broadest level, every patient and professional contact is important, and 50,000 members can make a difference.

What are Regional Networks?

As the voice of the CSP in the English regions, they:

• provide support in challenging times
• help you understand the changes in health care and how they affect you
• give you prompt access to CSP support, briefings and tools designed to help you
• enable you to work together to raise the profile of physiotherapy in your region
• help you create opportunities and take action
• seek to influence CSP decision making

Why are they vital?

There never has been a more important time to be involved and to raise awareness of what physiotherapy has to offer. The Regional Networks:

• help you make the most of the opportunities brought by these challenging times
• give a unique perspective of physiotherapy through the involvement of a cross section of members
• are a forum for progressing physiotherapy in your region
• address local issues through pursuing priorities eg leadership at all levels, outcome measures, increasing engagement with research, Move for Health
• work regionally on a central CSP priority which is currently influencing key decision makers

How do they work?

Each Regional Network is run by local physiotherapy activists and has its own style. All CSP Regional Networks have:

• a core team of activists, who meet quarterly, coordinate activity and promote regional priorities
• a regional iCSP discussion and information page
• a voice at CSP Council through your regional Council representative
• a voice at the English Network Forum which brings the 10 English regions together

Who should be involved?

To give a strong voice for physiotherapy all CSP members should be involved including:

• clinicians
• educators
• health and safety representatives
• managers
• non-working members
• private / independent sector physiotherapists
• researchers
• stewards
• students
• support workers / technicians

Note that as you progress specific regional priorities, you are likely to work with partners eg colleagues in medicine, health and social care, or in the voluntary sector.

How can I be involved?

Through:

• iCSP: share what is going on in your work place, discuss issues across your region, learn about local issues, see your core team’s minutes and agendas on your regional page via
• Frontline noticeboard: read brief summaries of events and activity in your region and see dates and times of meetings, conferences and activity that you can attend in your region
• attending core team meetings: these are quarterly in March, June, September and December each year. They are open to all members and are advertised on iCSP and in Frontline. For further information email your network contact below.
• Becoming an active member of your core team: there are opportunities to be an active core team member across all the regions on an ongoing basis. Find out more at your next core team meeting.

Network contacts

Use the list below to contact your regional core team to find out details of what is happening and advise them that you will attend a meeting.

Which is my Regional Network?

If you are a CSP member in England you are allocated a CSP Regional Network according to your home postcode but if you work or study in a different region then you may choose to be involved with an alternative Regional Network.

The table below indicates the cities, towns and counties included in each region and gives links to your Strategic Health Authority (SHA) website.