Key topics
Relate policy to practice with our comprehensive key topics guide.
Access to services
Physiotherapy is widely available across the UK, but accessing these services has often presented challenges for some groups
Commissioning
Radical reform to the structure and delivery of public services in the UK has seen commissioning emerge as a key brokering tool
Measuring for quality improvement in physiotherapy
Physiotherapy providers need to demonstrate the quality of their service to a range of audiences
Prescribing
For the past few years there has been a growing move to increase prescribing powers of non-medical staff
Public health
Physiotherapy has a key role to play in public health
Quality
The NHS has has now shifted its focus from quantity to quality of care, as experienced by people who use its services
Self referral
Self-referral to physiotherapy results in high levels of service-user satisfaction, lower NHS costs, and lower levels of work absence
Work health
Physiotherapists have a central role to play in helping people return to work and to manage their own health