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  • Scottish NHS pay offer announced

    The Scottish government has announced its final pay offer of five per cent for NHS Agenda for Change staff for the financial year 2022/23.

    News — 15 June 2022 - 12:16pm
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  • CSP Wales community rehab roundtable webinars for each Health Board

    CSP Cymru/Wales is hosting four local webinars for members to engage and share their feelings about community rehab in their Health Board.

    News — 15 June 2022 - 12:01pm
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  • CSP Council condemns policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda

    Following debate at our annual reps conference yesterday the CSP Council has condemned the policy of the UK government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. 

    News — 15 June 2022 - 10:49am
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  • Forthcoming change to the law will extend fit note certification to physios

    The CSP has welcomed an announcement from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that an upcoming change in legislation will enable physiotherapists to certify fit notes in England, Scotland and Wales. 

    News — 9 June 2022 - 4:17pm
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  • New guideline for physios and therapists on Adult Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    Physiotherapists can now access a new guideline to help them manage the complex needs of adults living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

    News — 9 June 2022 - 3:52pm
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  • CSP welcomes new planning requirements for urgent community response services in England

    NHS England have announced 2022/23 new planning guidance for urgent community response (UCR) services, which focus on the maintenance and growth of UCR teams and highlight the need for better workforce planning

    News — 9 June 2022 - 12:12pm
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  • Gongs for physios in the Queen’s platinum jubilee honours list 

    Rachel Perry was one of more than 100 medical staff and charity workers recognised by Her Majesty the Queen for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

    News — 6 June 2022 - 4:45pm
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  • Next steps for integrating primary care - a stocktake of out of hospital services

    A report into what is working well in integrated primary care and how it can be progressed across systems has been published by NHS England. 

    News — 30 May 2022 - 10:28am
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  • CSP’s equity, diversity and belonging committee appoints its first chair

    Sarine Baz has been appointed as the first chair of the CSP’s equity, diversity and belonging committee, and says she hopes her new role will help her support ‘meaningful change’ within the physiotherapy profession.

    News — 27 May 2022 - 4:20pm
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  • CSP members take action over pay and NHS pressures

    As pressures on the NHS continue and we await the overdue recommendation from the Pay Review Body, members from University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust staged a demonstration during their lunchbreak yesterday.

    News — 26 May 2022 - 10:38am
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