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  • Respiratory specialist in physiotherapy first

    In a first for the profession, a physiotherapist has been appointed to the pulmonary infection specialist advisory group of the British Thoracic Society (BTS).

    News — 3 December 2019 - 4:41pm
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  • Physio shines in AHP lifetime achievement awards for Wales

    Pip Ford has won the allied health professionals lifetime achievement award at the first Advancing Healthcare Awards Wales.

    News — 2 December 2019 - 4:01pm
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    Pip Ford
  • NICE gives greenlight to two cannabis-based drugs

    Doctors in the UK can now prescribe two cannabis-based medicinal products, which can benefit people with medical conditions such as epilepsy and spasticity.

    News — 29 November 2019 - 4:03pm
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  • December Frontline on its way

    The December issue of Frontline is out this week.

    News — 26 November 2019 - 4:56pm
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  • Physiotherapy can help tackle long-term sickness absence, says NICE

    Organisations should be making the health and wellbeing of their staff a core priority, and using interventions like physiotherapy to help people return to work.

    News — 22 November 2019 - 4:00pm
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  • CSP networks raise the profile of equality and diversity

    Members of the CSP diversity networks gathered this week to plan activity for next year aimed at developing closer working with students, and among other members and workplace reps.

    News — 21 November 2019 - 10:36am
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  • Standards of practice for working with adults with a learning disability are launched

    Learning disability physios have set out what’s needed to provide successful physiotherapy to adults with a learning disability.

    News — 19 November 2019 - 12:23pm
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  • Funding for physiotherapy training in Wales to rise to a new ‘record level’

    The CSP has welcomed a planned increase in funding for training places for physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals in Wales.

    News — 13 November 2019 - 4:10pm
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    Student education: whose role is it anyway?
  • Promoting training for CSP safety reps

    New CSP safety reps will have the chance to receive a TUC-accredited certificate, following its launch at an induction course last week.

    News — 12 November 2019 - 5:02pm
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  • NICE consultation on arthroplasty: CSP seeks clarity on a technicality which may affect best use of the workforce

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is consulting on proposed new guidelines for care following primary joint replacement of the hip, knee and shoulder.

    News — 11 November 2019 - 11:49am
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