When physios connect as peers, our community strengthens and our collective influence grows with it. Want to understand how One CSP supports this? Explore more 👉 https://bit.ly/44dq2H0 #OneCSP #CSPPhysio #PhysioCommunity #ProfessionalDevelopment #InfluentialMovement

Introducing One CSP 💙 helping our members find simple, flexible ways to get involved with the CSP. Volunteer. Network. Represent. Campaign. Your involvement matters. Be part of it. Find your route in 👉 https://bit.ly/44dq2H0 #OneCSP #CSPPhysio

Does your rehab team deserve national recognition this year? Enter the #RightToRehab Innovation Award at the Advancing Healthcare Awards & give your colleagues – and your service – the national profile it deserves in 2026. 👉 Submit your entry here: https://ow.ly/G3ps50XR3z4

'This analysis should be a warning that we cannot just keep doing the same things year after year. 'Part of the solution is improving access to community services.' - Rob Yeldham Our response to The Health Foundation data, which found that delayed discharge figures are worsening. #RightToRehab

'These new rights will be transformative for our members in workplaces across the country and represent the first pro-worker, pro-union laws in a generation.' The Employment Rights Bill, which introduces new rights for people in the workplace, cleared its final parliamentary hurdle.

‘Your action helped make this happen, now your evidence can help ensure the final guidance truly reflects the needs of physiotherapy and wider AHP services.’ NHS England has commissioned an evidence review that will help shape new AHP safe staffing guidance.

'MSK disease is the single biggest contributor to England’s healthy life expectancy gap.' Richard Harris in @HSJnews on how community physiotherapy could address the immediate need and support a healthier population in the long term. Physiotherapy works and pays back.

'We know what works. Physiotherapy-led falls and frailty interventions save lives, maintain independence, and economists forecast they will save the NHS £534m over the next 5 years.' - Rob Yeldham A National Audit Office report highlights the key role of physiotherapy in frailty care

Member Karen Poole represented the CSP in Parliament, giving evidence to inform the 10-year workforce plan for the NHS in England. We're calling for a plan that fully recognises physiotherapy and rehabilitation as central to achieving the NHS’s goals: www.csp.org.uk/news/2025-11...

💷📉 The first independent economic analysis of physiotherapy shows it saves the NHS more than it costs. Just four interventions save the NHS £145m a year. Read the report and use the Value Calculator to see what your service saves: www.csp.org.uk/roi #RightToRehab

'We welcome the development of new neighbourhood health centres that have rehabilitation embedded from the outset - not as an add-on, but as core to how communities stay healthy.' @sarahazzard.bsky.social Our response to the announcement of 250 new neighbourhood health centres. #RightToRehab

'All these achievements show the value you bring not just to the NHS but to society as a whole and this government remains committed to supporting the physiotherapy profession.' Health minister Karin Smyth MP thanked physiotherapy staff at the CSP's annual conference. #Physio25

After a heart attack or surgery, fear of moving again is natural - and exactly why cardiac rehab exists. Physio Catrin Davies explains how structured, evidence-based rehabilitation helps people rebuild strength, confidence and purpose. 🔗 Read her blog: https://ow.ly/2J1C50XpQsG #RightToRehab

'At a time when so many people are waiting for care, not enabling new physiotherapists who want to join the NHS to do so is a missed opportunity we can fix quickly. 'Physiotherapists are trained, motivated and ready to help.' 1/2

For Michael, the toughest battle after lung cancer wasn’t the surgery – it was recovery. Physio helped him rebuild his strength, confidence and hope. Doesn't everyone deserves that chance? 👉 Watch his story: https://youtu.be/4Zu5pTTN1EQ #RightToRehab

Join us at the CSP AGM next Saturday 22 Nov, either in person or online. Register your place by 20 Nov. Prefer to appoint a proxy voter? Just let us know by 17 Nov. Find out more at https://ow.ly/TA5x50XrOlL

Funding secured to cover redundancies across England’s Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and NHS England itself is welcome but huge concerns remain over the process, the CSP has said. https://www.csp.org.uk/news/2025-11-14-csp-supporting-members-affected-icb-nhs-england-redundancies

'In community rehab the person rarely has one problem — they often have five, ten, or more, and we need to see how those systems connect'- Sajith Narayanan-Lekshmy. Read her reflections on practice at https://ow.ly/AhA650XlYuh #RightToRehab

‘FCPs are providing brilliant care for patients across the country but the role has expanded rapidly and now is the right time to take stock.’ We are supporting an England-wide survey of #FirstContactPhysio services designed to map how the role is operating in primary care.

'Physiotherapists and other AHPs have a critical part to play here. Their work sits at the intersection of health and independence.' Sara Hazzard CSP on the government's shift to neighbourhood health services in the latest article in The New Statesman.

Welcome news for members in Northern Ireland, following pressure from health unions including the CSP. https://www.csp.org.uk/news/2025-11-06-csp-welcomes-announcement-restoration-pay-parity-health-service-staff-northern

CSP calls for urgent investment in physiotherapy workforce to keep Britain working We have welcomed the Keep Britain Working report, a cross-government review that sets out a new approach to tackling worklessness and improving workplace health.

Rehabilitation gives people back their lives. Congratulations to Miriam Duffy and the team at the new National Rehabilitation Centre. Look out for an exclusive editorial with Miriam in this month's Frontline 👀 #RightToRehab

This is totally unacceptable. Rehab is the key to unlocking patient flow in the NHS. Yet only 1 in 3 physios say they have enough staff to do their jobs properly and 6 in 10 have lost the space they need to deliver proper care. Physio staff are vital. Let's create the posts so many patients need

'The renewal of this strategy presents a further opportunity to build on the current women’s health strategy and recognise the vital role that physiotherapy staff play in providing specialised care.' Sara Hazzard CSP CSP calls for physio inclusion in women’s health strategy renewal

'It’s shocking that rehabilitation space continues to be sidelined and routinely taken away from physiotherapy teams who are then forced to provide care in corridors.' @sarahazzard.bsky.social @theguardian.com reports on our survey, which revealed the extent of the loss of rehabilitation space.

Pay parity must be restored for HSC staff in Northern Ireland Health unions including the CSP are calling on the Northern Ireland health minister to restore pay parity with the rest of the UK as a matter of urgency. #CSP4FairPay

'Where opportunities for early interventions are lost an ineffective pattern of healthcare can be set in place having a lasting impact for individuals.’ - Dr Kate Lough, chair of POGP Physios provide evidence to parliamentary inquiry on diagnosis and treatment of reproductive health conditions

'Physiotherapists are central to delivering neighbourhood health services and keeping people well in their communities, but MSK and rehab teams are already stretched to breaking point.' Sara Hazzard CSP CSP welcomes report on community rehab crisis that threatens NHS neighbourhood care plans

Our health and social care sector is built on the hard work and rich diversity of its workforce. The CSP has joined forces with health unions to condemn the rise in anti-migrant rhetoric and reaffirm support for international colleagues working across the UK’s health and social care system.

Another great day for @thecsp.bsky.social at #Lab25

Great support for #physiotherapy again today at #Lab25 from MPs and MSPs @thecsp.bsky.social

'We're at the Labour Party Conference to deliver one clear message - physiotherapy keeps people, the NHS, and the economy moving.' - @ashjames10.bsky.social Tag your Labour MP to invite them to visit the CSP at stand J4. #RightToRehab #Lab25 #LabConf25

@thecsp.bsky.social would love to see you at our stand. J4 at #Lab25 @thurrockjen.bsky.social

🌹 CSP members – help us influence Labour at #LabourConf25! 👉 Find your local Labour MP + tag them to invite them to visit us at stand J4. 🔎 Use the tool below to get their social handle 💪 Everyone deserves the #RightToRehab. #Lab25

Prevention in Practice: How Neighbourhood Health Services can Transform the NHS 📍We're hosting a Fringe event at the Labour conference, with a panel including: @skinnock.bsky.social @robyeldham.bsky.social 📍 Mon 29 September, 11:15 Meeting room 4A, AAC #RightToRehab #Lab25

@thecsp.bsky.social are at Labour Conf 2025 - if you are attending do come to our fringe with Stephen Kinnock MP or visit our stall @healthjournalism.org @hsj.co.uk @rcotpolicywales.bsky.social @patients-association.org.uk @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social @bhfpolicy.bsky.social #physiotherapy #rehab

Physio private sector ‘expertise, experience and capacity’ can keep Britain working, says CSP @thefabians.bsky.social proposals to improve workplace health point to the crucial role the physiotherapy private sector can play.

'Diversity is Britain's greatest strength. From the NHS to our schools, from our creative industries to our care services.' CSP director Claire Sullivan speaks to @The_TUC Congress delegation on the CSP’s motion on challenging hate. Full clip: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #TUC2025

@thecsp.bsky.social raising AI safeguards at #TUC25 - our AI guidelines are on our website

‘As today is #WorldPhysiotherapyDay, it is a fitting moment to celebrate the vital role physiotherapists play, while also sounding the alarm on the crisis facing our workforce.’ 👏 @mikem82.bsky.social, Chair of the NNRS spoke @tuc.org.uk Congress. Catch up: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

'It’s encouraging to read that the DHSC have understood that rehab and prehab are critical for inclusion in the national cancer plan.' @sarahazzard.bsky.social Physiotherapy’s role in cancer care has been formally recognised by the government. #RightToRehab

‘Patients are waiting in appalling pain, often falling out of work, to access rehab services that are severely short-staffed and crying out for the skills graduate physiotherapists can offer.' @robyeldham.bsky.social NHS waiting lists rise demonstrates need for graduate physio job guarantee

'Women of all ages need clear, accessible information on pelvic health issues to empower them to seek timely, effective care.' Have your say: the Women and Equalities Select Committee has launched a call for evidence on young women and girls’ reproductive health.

'We’re actively engaging with MPs and civil servants to make it clear that the NHS needs to recruit all the newly qualified physios it can to meet the government’s 10 year plan for the NHS.' We're seeking urgent clarification over a new graduate job guarantee scheme in England.

Who will you nominate for a @thecsp.bsky.social award ? @csplgbtqia.bsky.social @cspscotland.bsky.social @thecspstudents.bsky.social @csplondon.bsky.social #physio

'Physiotherapy prescribing now has an established evidence-base of being safe, cost-effective and valued by patients.' - @pipwhite.bsky.social We're urging members to respond to a new government consultation proposing an expansion of prescribing rights for physiotherapist independent prescribers.

#RightToRehab I work with patients in a hydrotherapy pool every week of the year. It makes a vast difference to individuals - particularly those with learning and physical disabilities. Health equality is vital. #NHS

'Hydrotherapy isn’t a luxury — it’s a lifeline for many people with long-term pain, disability or chronic conditions'. Ash James speaks to ITV News about how this impacts patients, causing their health to deteriorate and widening health inequality. #RightToRehab

Wrote a little thingy for the @thecsp.bsky.social monthly mag! 🫣