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Multidisciplinary team working can help prevent people with social care needs from staying in hospital unnecessarily, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Two physiotherapists are part of an NHS choir hoping to top the charts with a powerful charity single.

Optimal Physio in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, won the excellence in customer satisfaction prize at Global Health and Pharma magazine’s healthcare and pharmaceutical awards 2015.

NHS England is to appoint a physiotherapist or other allied health professional (AHP) to help transform clinical care through informatics.

Non-specific low back pain is a valid concept, ruled delegates of the Society for Back Pain Research at its annual scientific meeting, held in Bournemouth last month.

A physiotherapy practice which sponsors up-and-coming young athletes, helping them represent Great Britain at Olympic and Commonwealth level, has been recognised in a local council business awards.

An updated rehabilitation code, which recommends streamlining rehab for people involved in low-value personal injury legal cases, has been published and will come into effect from 1 December.

A specialist NHS rehabilitation service has been honoured in the prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards for its work in creating a specialist rehabilitation network where ‘the patient is at the heart of everything they do’.

CSP members in Northern Ireland have been celebrating the 21st anniversary of the society welcoming physiotherapy associates as members.

Children with cystic fibrosis and other complex respiratory conditions are benefiting from a dedicated rapid response chest physiotherapy service, the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists conference heard.