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Northern Ireland’s health department is to make a cut of nearly 10 per cent to the number of places it commissions for physiotherapy students.

Physiotherapists were part of three teams which received recognition for their work to improve the experience of patients.

A British Society of Rheumatology (BSR) award has gone to a multidisciplinary team which included physiotherapists.

Physiotherapists will be key to the welfare of 37,000 athletes taking part in the 2016 London Marathon on Sunday.

Postmen and women around the country could benefit from physiotherapy advice on foot care, following a successful advice session in Hull.

Rehabilitation services in Scotland received a boost at the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) in Dundee this week, where the CSP Scotland motion calling for rehabilitation services to receive the same priority as other parts of healthcare was carried.

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Northern Ireland has expressed its deep concern at the decision by the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety to cut the number of physiotherapy training places at Ulster University by almost 10% in 2016/17. 

Paul Farquharson, physio to professional golfer Danny Willett, said physiotherapy made a ‘huge’ difference to the player’s victory at the US Masters tournament in Augusta earlier this month, where he became the first European winner since 1999.

An influential committee of MPs has set out a vision of primary care in England in which physiotherapists work alongside GPs and other health professionals as part of multidisciplinary teams.

Physio Lucy Cassidy took the main prize at this year’s Advancing Healthcare awards, for leading the development of a virtual fracture clinic at Brighton and Sussex University Trust.