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The CSP has drawn up a sample job description for physios working in general practice with guidance how to evaluate these roles against the NHS Job Evaluation system.

A wide range of businesses involved in private physiotherapy are collaborating to develop ways to demonstrate the quality of private musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services.

Physiotherapy staff in West Lothian joined forces with their patients to promote the benefits of rehabilitation for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness day.

The average age of people in England who have a stroke for the first time has fallen over the past decade, new figures show.

Carol Black, principal of the Newnham College, Cambridge and NHS adviser on work and disability, told Frontline that she backed the government’s strategy to enable physiotherapists to provide fit notes.

More research is needed to explain why humans, unlike wild animals, experience chronic pain and display their pain more than other primates do.

Exercise can help people with persistent pain, but their expectations and beliefs can affect the outcome, physiotherapy clinician Ben Cormack told the Physiotherapy Pain Association study day on 26 January.

Physiotherapists need a new model of pain that takes account of a ‘predictive’ sensory and cognitive interaction, and the influence of people’s emotions and expectations.

Health minister Steve Brine saw rehabilitation in action during a visit to a specialist private neuro practice in his Winchester constituency.

GPs in Scotland have approved a new contract that will see more physiotherapists acting as the first point of contact for patients in GP settings.