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A Facebook-based challenge has been developed as an effective and low cost way of motivating people with cystic fibrosis in Dundee to take more exercise.

Mosquitoes and other tiny insects can have a huge impact on their surroundings, CSP members attending this week’s Inspire, Innovate and Impact event in Perth were told.

The CSP is urging action to support and properly reward NHS staff after a survey highlighted understaffing, long hours and stubbornly high stress levels.

Flexible working for physios was high on the agenda at this year's TUC Women's Conference.

A physiotherapy student has set up a crowdfunding appeal to raise money to cover his tuition fees, after failing to secure NHS funding.

Forty per cent of the clinical commissioning groups in England have piloted the use of general practice physiotherapists, the CSP said in evidence to the Public Accounts Committee’s investigation into access to general practice.

Budget measures revealed today finally acknowledge the pressure the NHS and social care are under, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has said.

Delegates rejected a suggestion that the CSP should extol the benefits of physical activity by placing advertisements in GP surgeries.

Physiotherapists must strive to be influential at a country, regional and local level, chief executive Karen Middleton told the society’s annual representative conference.

By collaborating with other unions the CSP could help to convince the UK government to reinstate a scheme to relocate and support refugee children.