South Central

To examine the key factors influencing the transformation of Therapy Services within our institution, creating links to sustainable service quality improvements. In 2014 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) carried out a service wide consultation of Physiotherapy and Occupatonal Therapy provision with the aim of transforming Therapy Services. The key outcome from the consultation was the re-organisation of Therapy Services into defined team "clusters" under a single management structure, creating a Head of Therapy Services who reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Nursing. The key challenges were addressing the collaborative working within Therapies and across the hospital taking into consideration professional isolation within Directorates, localities, Wiltshire and Wessex Deanary; staffing, recruitment and retention; morale and innovation; and patient flow.

Time: Ours to organise, ours to spend and equally ours to waste- but what about when that control is taken. In a culture where our days are filled with loved ones, work and activity, we choose to balance our time across these. However, when you are admitted to an acute hospital, this aspect of choice is often taken away.

As physiotherapists one of our key roles in inpatient care is to improve and regain function to allow our patients to return to their home at their baseline level. By making simple changes- getting patients dressed into day clothes, walking to the toilet and sitting in a chair for meals there can be a clear correlation with the speed of a patient's rehabilitation.

Physiotherapy programmes must prepare graduates to live and work in a globally interconnected society. Internationalised learning experiences have the potential to break down ethnocentric worldviews by exposing students to analysis and critique of practice from different cultural perspectives. Such experiences may enable transformative learning by developing the student's ability to shift perspective and reflect critically on how disciplinary practice can change with the social context. Opportunities to study abroad can only be offered to a minority of students. In contrast, digital technology such as discussion forums and video conferencing provide an inclusive platform to make international experiences available to all students on a programme. The aim of this educational project was to engage physiotherapy students in a transnational collaborative group task in order to increase awareness of different international perspectives on clinical practice and healthcare provision and facilitate reflection on their local context.