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  • Physio student’s golden Paralympics debut in Great Britain rowing squad

    As the first woman in sports history to win double world championship titles in one regatta and smashing multiple world records, Oxford Brookes physiotherapy student Frankie Allen powered her way to victory in the most successful Paralympics games for TeamGB Rowing.

    News — 30 August 2024 - 2:54pm
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    Paralympic Games rower Frankie Allen. Credit: Benedict Tufnell for British Rowing
  • CSP recommends that members accept Scottish government’s pay offer

    Scottish members have until 9am on Monday 23 September to vote to accept or reject this offer.   

    News — 29 August 2024 - 3:22pm
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    Scottish Parliament building in bright sunshine
  • CSP members in Northern Ireland champion equality at Foyle Pride parade

    Foyle Pride parade took place on 24 August - CSP members marched alongside other trade unions and community groups at the Pride event in Derry/Londonderry.

     

    News — 28 August 2024 - 2:34pm
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  • Scottish government makes pay offer to healthcare unions

    Following negotiations between the Scottish government and health unions, including the CSP, a one-year pay offer has been made.

    News — 20 August 2024 - 4:59pm
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    Holyrood Castle in Scotland
  • Scale up best practice to fix the NHS

    The CSP is calling on the government to join up healthcare to treat people until they are fully well – or risk the NHS remaining broken.

    News — 13 August 2024 - 2:37pm
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    Hospital patient receives hand treatment
  • CSP staff and members unite against racism and hate crimes in Northern Ireland

    This week, the CSP Northern Ireland (CSP NI) took a stand against the rising tide of racism and hate crimes affecting ethnic minorities.

    News — 9 August 2024 - 5:41pm
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    Northern Ireland CSP staff and members unite against racism and hate crimes
  • CSP calls for improved training, development and delegation in response to national support worker review

    The CSP is calling for improvements in support worker training, career development and implementation of safe and effective delegation practices. 

    News — 7 August 2024 - 2:29pm
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    Support workers
  • Government funding for more GPs provides a short-term solution, but more FCPs in primary care needed

    The government has announced that it is removing the ‘red tape currently preventing GP surgeries from hiring doctors’, but this must not distract from the need for more First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP) in primary care.

    News — 7 August 2024 - 10:37am
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    First Contact Physiotherapist
  • Government makes good on promise to repeal anti-union strike law

    The CSP welcomes the government’s announcement that it will repeal a draconian anti-strike law introduced last year. 

    News — 6 August 2024 - 3:56pm
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    The CSP banner among a large trade union march
  • UK to lead keynote speakers list at World Physiotherapy Congress

    Eight physiotherapists from the United Kingdom will be among the main speakers at the profession’s largest and most important international gathering, the World Physiotherapy Congress 2025, to be held next May in Japan.

    News — 6 August 2024 - 3:52pm
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