Community gyms - an answer to loss of rehabilitation space resulting from the pandemic
Like many acute Trusts across the country, the MSK, paediatric and pelvic health physio teams at Ashford and St Peters (ASPH) in Surrey were facing competing demands on rehabilitation space as a result of the pandemic. Building on the ideas they had to bring rehabilitation closer to home for patients before the pandemic hit, the team managed to successfully influence at all levels of local decision-making to secure gym space and clinic at 3 local gyms. In this blog post they describe how they achieved this, how their influencing efforts snowballed and the positive effect on staff and patients
