Championing rehab

While the importance of rehab continues to grow, we must not get complacent, but instead shout about it. That’s why recently the CSP has supported the creation of powerful billboards and radio adverts showcasing peoples’ ‘firsts’ through rehab. 

Finding new and innovative ways to campaign for a Right to Rehab brought together a specialist rehab nurse and CRA member to show the crucial role of physios and the wider MDT to comprehensively rehabilitate people. 

Across mainland UK, from Edinburgh to Bristol, you may have seen campaign activity calling for an end to the lottery for access to vital rehab.

We know rehab is as important to patient recovery, function and wellbeing as medicines and surgery, which is why, in this general election year, the CSP is leading the rehab conversation with governments across the UK and continues to co-chair and convene the Community Rehabilitation Alliance. 

The rehab ‘firsts’ campaign is continuing online – watch and hear the patient stories at petitionforrehab.com as well as find petitions to end the rehab postcode lottery, or if you’re in Scotland write the right to rehab into law.

Elsewhere in this issue, we meet Aimee Robson, deputy director of personalised care at NHS England. Also, with the elections to CSP Council approaching, Kirsty Semple explores the skills you could gain by representing the CSP’s membership.