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• In front

  Why we still need Pride

  It is more than 50 years since the first UK Pride march – when hundreds of LGBTQIA+ people and their allies gathered in London to protest a society

  

• In the workplace

  Issues with on-call

  Find out more from two of our members experiencing stress and anxiety after being added to the on-call rota

  

• Focus

  You said We did

  Members’ views and opinions are important to us and can help shape and improve our services and the way we work.

  

• Profile

  Career Transitions

  John Doyle, director of allied health professions for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, talks to Nina Paterson about transitions,

  

• Features

  Getting involved with a professional network

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  Make the most of your membership – our new ‘We are the CSP’ campaign promotes and raises awareness of all the benefits of CSP membership

  

• Features

  Influencing toolkit

  The CSP has launched a new influencing toolkit to help members to bring about change and make sure their voices are heard

  

• Hot topic

  Shared decision making - making assumptions?

  Shared decision making is not new. It is becoming a non-negotiable ethos.

  

• In question

  Introducing the new ‘find my rep’ feature!

  ‘How can I find my workplace rep?’. Jim Fahie, CSP assistant director of employment relations explains

  

• In the workplace

  Physiotherapy is a profession ready to grow

  There is a growing need for more physiotherapy staff in the UK, but what steps do each of the four nations need to take in order to meet the rising

  

• Viewpoint

  What’s in a lanyard?

  Ellie Lovegrove recalls meeting her year group at university for the first time.

  

• Viewpoint

  Self-referral and primary care announcement

  New plans to increase self-referrals to physiotherapy services are welcome, says Ash James, but need a stronger workforce to succeed

  

• In person

  Time to move on?

  Karen Middleton reflects on how to decide when to change direction in our working lives

  

• Resources

  Resources

  View our latest selection of tools and information sources that you may find useful

  

• In the workplace

  Career transition support and preceptorship

  Preceptorship and its benefits are explained by CSP professional adviser Alexandra Nambyiah

  

• Research findings

  Explaining osteoarthritis well

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  Latest in research from Tina Hadley-Barrows, consultant physiotherapist 

  

• Last word

  The power of digitisation

  Patient feedback is critical for developing and improving services, but gaining and using the data effectively is often complex and challenging