Transforming lives as director
@theCSP
&
@Unions21
board member. FCIPR. My views health, rehab, work, comms and environment. shares/likes not endorsements.
I’ve not shared it publicly before but my father has been in GRH for 12 days with Covid. The good news is he is being discharged today. A big thank you to SW Ambulance service, community rapid response and
@gloshospitals
thread...
For anyone who wonders why AHPs and non clinical staff get a bit peeved when the debate on healthcare focussed on nurses or doctors just think about having a fall on your daily walk and breaking a leg. A thread.
One of the unexpected positives of today’s .
@thecsp
strike is how it has made many people outside physio stand back and think about the contribution physios and physio support workers make, to patients and to the smooth running of the whole health system.
Telegraph attack on NHS staff who are no registered clinicians is clearly ideologically driven. Rehab assistants, technical instructors, therapy support workers are not “unqualified assistants” they are skilled professionals, often with higher level qualifications.
Disappointed that
@BBCRadio4
#reunion
have chosen to put only medics and nurses on their programme today. Covid ICU teams are not just nurses and doctors.
So Pret baristas will now be earning up to £14.10 an hour.
New NHS doctors - after their 5-year medical degree, whopping £80,000 of student debt, & life & death responsibilities - get paid £14.13 an hour.
And the government wonders why they're striking?
Rehab asks: 1 Recognise
#RightToRehab
2 Maintain community rehab services to limit impact on non-Covid19 patients & to help Covid19 patients 3 Expand multi condition community rehab services 4 Develop the rehab workforce 5 Ensure physios delivering rehab have the right PPE.
Interesting talking to
@thecsp
members today who told me it only really dawned on hospital management when they looked at the potential impact of
#CSP4FairPay
strike that without physios, discharge is massively reduced.
Just to alert my followers, some MPs have started reporting HCPs to their regulators for social media comments about politicians. Stay safe online -
@thecsp
avoids attacking individual politicians - criticise the policy not the person.
Can we please start to use plain language in healthcare and stop blaming the public for a supposed lack of health literacy? Personal bugbears; preceptorship, social prescribing, care navigator, acuity, ambulatory, (and being brave here) allied health professional. Others?
Asked today about
@thecsp
position on AHP directors - CSP believes that every NHS and integrated health and care organisation should have an executive director responsible for AHPs, who is themselves an AHP, at board or equivalent level in the organisation.
Every time extremists criticise the
@RNLI
for saving the lives of people who are not British or Irish it prompts me to make a small donation to encourage them to continue to save ALL lives at sea.
Quick plea to everyone angry at that story about AHPs. Post positive messages about how critical AHPs are to patients. Never repeat the lie and never retweet coverage of it.
#OnlineRebuttal
Lots of physios understandably upset by the inaccurate way
#FirstContactPhysio
described in some media coverage of yesterday’s GP contract announcement. But the level of interest is a great opportunity to make a positive case for the role. So let’s explain rather than complain.
@wesstreeting
.
@wesstreeting
- What about physios, paramedics, radiographers, OTs, speech therapists, podiatrists, psychologists and al, the other clinical professions? No transformation, no reduction in waiting lists and no improvements to care without them.
Best advice I heard from a physio service manager facing problems recruiting to mid career roles was to over recruit junior roles and accelerate development opportunities for existing staff to step up into the more senior roles.
#SolutionFocus
#PhysioWorkforce
@SteveBarclay
.
@SteveBarclay
will you discuss pay with health unions or not? Saying your door is open but refusing to talk about the issue this dispute centres on is hardly being open to dialogue.
Good case study of how physios and OTs are part of the solution to delayed discharge - if you add in first contact physios and good community rehab massive chance to improve care and release resources.
Good to see physio involvement in vaccination programme mentioned in BBC coverage of vaccines centres this morning. Thanks to all the physios, former physios, students and support workers who are either working to vaccinating us all or covering for colleagues who are.
@RichardJMurphy
There are many patients with long tern conditions who know when they need to see their consultant or a physio or another clinician. Forcing them to go via their GP delays their treatment and adds to GP workload. 🧵
#RightToRehab
alliance discussing the increase in rehab needs post Covid as a result of both people with existing needs missing out on rehab and people who will develop rehab needs due to Covid
Regular reminder that in the UK it is illegal to use the terms Physiotherapist or Physical Therapist to describe yourself unless you are registered with
@The_HCPC
and they can take legal action against illegal users. It isn’t a defence to claim others see your role as analogous.
Personal plea - Please do check on any students you know, especially those in their final year. For some the changes to their finals and end of year plans can be highly distressing. Heard about an attempted overdose case today (not physio).
Have now heard colleagues reporting some physios using food banks and others leaving community roles due to transport costs. Fighting for fair pay has to be the main way the
@thecsp
community responds but if you are in need now do ask
@CSPMBF
for financial help.
Vaccinations update - Public Health England have confirmed that a Standard Operating Procedure for vaccination sites is currently being finalised which will provide the mechanism for independent sector HCPs to access vaccinations. Thread
Physios in England strike on 26th and 9th. Even before the strikes .
@thecsp
action for fair pay has been mentioned close to 2,000 times in the media so far in 2023. Striking or not, joint the campaign for
#FairPay4Physios
I see a few people setting up twitter “physio” accounts. Do read the advice on
@thecsp
website as there are professional implications to consider for all your social media accounts, not just those you view as the professional ones.
Great point at .
@thecsp
staff meeting - why is it that rehabbing service personnel is considered essential by the MoD, but rehabbing civilians isn't by the
@DHSCgovuk
?
Physios are too modest says
@mancunianmedic
- go and bang the drum he says. Docs are gobby and nurses have numbers so Physios need to speak up for themselves.
#Physio18
Great to see physios and other AHPs rehabbing Covid patients on
@BBCNews
- but for some it will be a long haul, I hope media are as interested in community rehab in six months
#CovidRehab
#RightToRehab
Remember three things when "they" say the taxpayer can't afford to pay healthcare staff more: 1. UK government sits on £30billion war chest 2. 80% of NHS pay increase comes back to Treasury through tax etc. 3. public support higher pay for healthcare workers.
.
@RishiSunak
suggesting that there are better ways to deal with falls than sending a paramedic crew - good idea and nothing new as this case study shows - Falls: a better way? | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Making PE a core subject will not on its own address physical inactivity. Great teaching, inclusivity and a person centric approach is needed. Poor school experiences of PE are one of the causes of psychological barriers to exercise for some people.
I usually try hard to keep my personal politics away from Twitter due to my employer being non party political and neutral on referenda. So any images of me today taking some physical activity in central London are purely personal. DM me if you are also going.
Thanks to all my followers (have now gone over 7,000 for the first time). First day back after the break. On the agenda today clarifying vaccine access for all physios, support workers and students in contact with patients, regardless of setting or sector.
No, the majority of union members accepted the improved offer achieved by strikes by a number of unions, reluctantly. Many people needed some extra cash now because the alternative is reliance on food banks. NHS Staff and unions actually think it is still unfair and unreasonable!
I'm pleased the NHS Staff Council has voted to accept our pay offer.
That a majority of NHS staff are in agreement shows the deal is both fair and reasonable.
I now intend to implement this so that more than a million people across the NHS get their extra pay from next month.
Thread: someone asked
@thecsp
what have we actually done to support members during the Covid pandemic, I am sure colleagues can add to this but; provided online information on PPE, lobbied for AGP advice to be amended, advised individual members concerned about PPE...
Sorry if I haven’t responded to anything on Twitter over the last couple of days - I’ve been off celebrating my silver wedding anniversary, perhaps not as intended abroad, due to Covid, but lovely time at Rye none the less.
A’level results day and still an opportunity to join the Physiotherapy profession. Some places for first degree courses available at; Bedfordshire
Bolton
Bournemouth
Bradford
Coventry
Cumbria
UEL
Gloucestershire
Keele
Leicester
Teesside
Winchester
Worcester
#Clearing2021
Very concerning .
@NHSEngland
that yet again there is no mention of AHPs. You will not get the care and transformation of services without major investment in more AHPs and more AHP support workers.
Important interview from Amanda Pritchard ahead of the government’s
#NHS
workforce projections due this year.
@NHSConfed
@FRSAMatthew
quoted: “It’s vital the government continue to invest in growing the UK training pipeline to bridge the vacancy gap.”
Just to be clear there is a shortage of physios across all parts of the UK....if Harry Styles wants to train as a physio, and has the grades, he should apply to one of the units offering pre reg degrees
Following CSP lobbying, non NHS physios, physio support workers and students on placement outside the NHS in England will be able to book vaccinations directly with local NHS hub hospitals. More info will be available on the CSP website (covid vaccination pages) later.
.
@wesstreeting
.
@BBCr4today
it isn’t just docs, nurses and midwives, we need action to increase training numbers of physios, podiatrists, paramedics, radiographers, OTs and all the other allied health professions.
.
@thecsp
has joined calls for mandatory face coverings to slow Covid spread. NHS organisations have warned that services face severe pressures from Covid backlogs, winter illnesses and Covid.
A massive thank you to all the physios and other healthcare staff, and other key workers, who won’t be able to watch tonight’s game as they will be working.
#ComingHome
Looks like 14 unis have
#Clearing2020
clearing places for physiothepry pre reg courses, so everything to play for if you just missed your grades for your preferred programme or did better than expected and want to "trade up".
Concerning to see a non league football club advertising for unpaid "physio interns". Volunteering is one thing, practice base learning another. But unpaid internships are neither.
Massive thank you first of all to all the .
@thecsp
reps without whom we would. It have archived the ballot results allowing the strike today and who have done so brilliantly organising pickets locally
#CSP4FairPay
I understand some members think highlighting deficiencies in services reflects badly on physios. Where services are not adequate the fault is not with physios; it is with the decision makers who underfund or fail to commission services. We must challenge them.
#BackingRehab
Delighted to be able to sign off the paper for
@thecsp
Council. as the accountable director, proposing establishment of a new
@thecsp
associate member network. Great work from the support worker reference group and
@ClaireFordham5
From today in England non-NHS physios, physio support workers and students on placement outside the NHS can book vaccinations directly with their local NHS hub hospitals. A complete list of NHS hub hospitals can be found here: more to follow thread
#Covid19
@theCSP
have set up a webpage to curate advice for physios and physio support workers. This will be supplemented by a CSP FAQ on some issues not covered elsewhere.
@HSJEditor
@theresecoffey
Not a great way to start, leaving out any clinical group and the non registered workforce always irritates those forgotten but to miss nurses, physios, pharmacists to name just a few is pretty poor.
Understand NHS in London wants to prioritise elective orthopaedic surgery for return to new normal, but 10% no longer want surgery, so big potential demand for rehab and for physio as an alternative
#RightToRehab