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  • TUC congress: Raise awareness about invisible impairments, says CSP

    Employers need a better understanding of how ‘hidden conditions’ such as dyslexia, arthritis and mental illness can affect staff.

    News — 14 September 2016 - 5:20pm
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  • TUC congress: Safeguard the NHS by increasing investment and pay for staff, says CSP

    The CSP has called for increased investment in the NHS and highlighted the need for real-terms pay increases and quality employment for staff.

    News — 14 September 2016 - 5:17pm
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  • Physios should warn of ‘re-do’ risk for younger hip replacement patients

    Physios have a role to play in warning younger patients that they should consider waiting to receive hip replacement surgery, a former senior physiotherapist has said.

    News — 12 September 2016 - 4:53pm
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  • New IT roles for physios could be opened by proposals for a fully digitised NHS

    Physiotherapists could train as digital leaders under recommendations in a landmark report on harnessing IT to improve NHS care in England.

    News — 9 September 2016 - 2:14pm
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  • CSP launches new tools to bust back pain myths

    The CSP is promoting a major educational campaign that sets out to bust popular myths and misapprehensions about back pain. 

    News — 8 September 2016 - 12:05am
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  • Northern Ireland invests £462,000 in better workplace health

    Northern Ireland’s workforce will have access to lunchtime exercises, weight loss programmes and cycle to work schemes as part of a £462,000 health initiative.

    News — 7 September 2016 - 1:01pm
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  • NICE issues new guidance on extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal

    Physios must inform their trust’s clinical governance leads if they want to use extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) to treat patients with respiratory failure.

    News — 7 September 2016 - 11:30am
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  • British Elbow and Shoulder Society awards fellowship to physio

    Physio Val Jones will be travelling to South Africa as part of a fellowship awarded by the British Elbow and Shoulder Society.

    News — 6 September 2016 - 3:53pm
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  • Physio’s YouTube video shows the benefits of a service for complex regional pain syndrome

    A physiotherapist from Bath has helped to produce a YouTube video about a specialist service for people with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

    News — 6 September 2016 - 3:35pm
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  • Embarrassment stops women seeking help for postnatal incontinence

    Almost four in 10 women who experience urinary incontinence after childbirth are self-conscious about discussing the problem with a healthcare professional, research by the National Childbirth Trust shows.

    News — 6 September 2016 - 2:57pm
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