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King’s College London will start accepting new applications for its older person’s fellowship in October, Nicky Hayes, the clinical lecturer with the programme has confirmed.

A pilot primary care service in Hertfordshire has managed to discharge 80 per cent of people with low back pain after their first appointment.

After four years of physiotherapy Ann Rowe, a previously wheelchair-bound care home resident, has taken part in her first 5km race at the age of 87.

Amanda Hensman-Crook’s pioneering work developing a first point of contact specialist physio role in GP clinics has been shortlisted for a Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) service innovation award.

Public Health England has published a resource pack to accompany its Falls and fracture consensus statement: supporting commissioning through prevention, published in January. 

CSP responds to The Sun article which suggests the government will lift the public sector pay cap

Members are encouraged to nominate physiotherapy support workers for the UK-wide Our Health Heroes Awards 2017 by 15 September.

The CSP’s senior negotiating officer Claire Ronald took a leading role in speaking out against proposals to axe £70m from Northern Ireland’s health services during a recent interview for BBC Radio Ulster.

More than one million fit notes for musculoskeletal (MSK) problems were issued in England from December 2014 to this March – adding ballast to the CSP’s push for physiotherapists to be allowed to sign patients off work.

Physiotherapy staff will get a 20 per cent discount on orthopaedic products as part of a deal between Neo G and the CSP.