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Members of the CSP are being urged to act quickly in encouraging ‘expert’ patients to put themselves forward as patient representatives for physiotherapy.

This is a corrected version of a story that appeared in the 17 April issue of Frontline. The telephone triage pilot had been approved by Scotland's National MSK programme board. It has not, as was wrongly implied in the Frontline story, been approved by the CSP. It is due to be considered by the CSP’s Scottish Board on 14 June and then by the full CSP council on 19 June. We apologise for the mistake in Frontline. The corrected version of the article appears below.

A CSP motion calling on trades unions to campaign for an end to violence against women and girls was carried unanimously at the TUC Black Workers' Conference.

A physio-led health and fitness programme for overweight patients in north Wales is being recognised as an innovative way of reducing hospital stays following orthopaedic surgery.

A physiotherapist working to develop patient care for people with osteoarthritis is a newly-named fellow of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

The CSP has urged the health secretary for England to review a trust’s decision to close a specialist neuro-rehabilitation service at a hospital in Bath.

In a final rallying push, the CSP has called on its members in England to try to influence a crucial debate on NHS commissioning plans, due to be heard in the House of Lords on 24 April.

The University of Hertfordshire is looking for past physio students to share stories of the exciting places their degree has taken them.