FCP, rehab, physio advice and getting people back into work – July in the media

Member Sam Bhide was quoted in a Times article on the benefits of a daily walk. 

CSP’s Sara Hazzard was quoted in a BBC online article about a Suffolk neuro-rehabilitation service that is facing funding cuts despite providing a lifeline to local people with brain injuries.

She said: ‘When rehab services are in place they help avoid unnecessary hospital readmissions and reduce ambulance queues and missed A&E waiting time targets. Services like this need to be respected, resourced and retained for the value they provide for individuals and the NHS as a whole.’ 

CSP’s CEO John Cowman was quoted in an article in the Telegraph reporting on the sexist comments made by a New Zealand radio station about a member of squad’s medical staff.

He said: 'No one should face such online abuse and the comments denigrate the high professional standards that she and other sports medics and physiotherapists uphold. This kind of abuse is still all too common both online and in stadiums and needs to end now.'

CSP’s Sara Hazzard’s letter featured in the Times responding to an article from Sir Alan Milburn on how to get the millions of people currently on long-term sick leave back to work.

She said: 'Sir Alan Milburn is right that those who are absent from the workforce owing to long-term sickness should be supported back into work, but punitive measures against a backdrop of a broken NHS will not work. The NHS cannot be fixed without addressing the flow of patients in and out of hospitals, which is why prevention and rehabilitation need to be key parts of Lord Darzi's NHS review. Getting rehab right could not only help people to recover more quickly, and more fully, and manage long-term conditions, but could help to cut emergency department attendances by a million a year.'