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East Midlands
Key contact/chair: Administered by CSP member Desi Gillespie with support from Catherine Chappell and Pip White
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: Open Facebook group
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Catherine Chappell and Pip White
How to join: Go to the Facebook group, or email chappellc@csp.org.uk or whitep@csp.org.uk
West Midlands
Key contact/chair: Senthilnathan Padmanabham (In development)
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: open to new members
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Rachael Wadlow
How to join: email dallowaym@csp.org.uk or wadlowr@cap.org.uk
North East
Key contact/chair: Nick Livadas
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: Open Facebook group
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Catherine Chappell and Kathryn Appleby
How to join: Go to the Facebook group, or email chappellc@csp.org.uk or applebyk@csp.org.uk
London
Key contact/chair: Sam Bhide, Aisling O'Malley, Will Bateman and Matthew Harrison
Topic focus: This is a voluntary, professional and friendly peer to peer Teams channel and WhatsApp group for FCPs in London.
Network size: Medium – open to new members
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Catherine Chappell and Hui J Chia
How to join: Go to the WhatsApp group – if you have any problems, please email Sam at sampada.bhide@nhs.net and she will try to assist
South East
Key contact/chair: Sylvia Wojciechowski
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: open to new members
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Clare Aldridge
How to join: email dallowaym@csp.org.uk or aldridgec@csp.org.uk and link in with existing members by joining the SE FCP iCSP network
South East – North Kent
Key contact/chair: Ben Simms
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: open to new members
Meeting frequency: not set
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Clare Aldridge
How to join: email dallowaym@csp.org.uk or aldridgec@csp.org.uk
South East – Sussex
Key contact/chair: Gail Underhill
Topic focus: FCP (multi-disciplinary) – Members include AHP’s working in Primary Care, AHP’s thinking about a career in Primary Care and supervisors/leads who are supporting the AHP ARRS rollout. “Peer support – colleagues meeting together, as equals to give each other connection and support on a reciprocal basis”
Network size: open to new members in Sussex
Meeting frequency: Monthly
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Nicki Mcrae
How to join: email gail.underhill@nhs.net
South West
Key contact/chair: Multiple groups in development
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: TBC
Meeting frequency: TBC
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Jackie Lidgard
How to join: email dallowaym@csp.org.uk or lidgardj@csp.org.uk
South West – Gloucestershire
Key contact/chair: Zoe Jones/ Emily Turner
Topic focus: MSK FCP
Network size: 10 currently, but open to all MSK FCPs working in the Gloucestershire ICS
Meeting frequency: monthly
CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway and Jackie Lidgard
How to join: email zoe.jones10@nhs.net / Emily.turner22@nhs.net
North West
Key contact/chair: Philip Driver
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: Medium (50) open to new members
Meeting frequency: every 1-2 months
CSP regional team: Hayley Downey and Julie Blackburn
How to join: email downeyh@csp.org.uk or blackburnj@csp.org.uk
Yorkshire and the Humber – South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw
Key contact/chair: Joe Henson
Topic focus: FCP peer to peer learning and support
Network size: 35 members, open to new members working in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS
Meeting frequency: Quarterly
CSP regional team: Hattie Hodgson-Crome and Abi Henderson
How to join: Contact Joe Henson at joseph.henson@nhs.net
East of England
Key contact: Sarang Kale and Saumya Srivastava
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: Medium size lively WhatsApp group open to FCPs from the region
Meeting frequency: TBC
CSP regional team: Catherine Chappell and Sara Glanville-Taylor
How to join: Share your mobile number by emailing saumya.srivastava@nhs.net to be added to the group
Suffolk and North East Essex
Key contact/chair: Olivia Allen
Topic focus: Friendly peer to peer support network for physios/FCPs working within Primary Care across Suffolk and North East Essex.
Network size: Very small, but growing!
Meeting frequency: TBC
CSP regional team: Catherine Chappell and Sara Glanville-Taylor
How to join: Email Olivia.allen11@suffolk.nhs.uk to be added to the contact list
Wales
Key contact/chair: tbc
Topic focus: FCP
Network size: Open to new members
Meeting frequency: Once a month and have a WhatsApp group
CSP regional team: Hayley Downey
How to join: Email downeyh@csp.org.uk