Researchers find strong link between shortages in health workers and excess deaths: The BMJ

by Ian McMillan | May 10, 2023 | Research

Shortages of allied health professionals (AHPs) and other health workers are strongly associated with higher death rates, according to an analysis of 172 countries and territories that appears in The BMJ today (11 May). The finding is especially strong for...

Primary care patients will be able to refer themselves for physiotherapy, says NHS England plan

by Ian McMillan | May 9, 2023 | News

Staff answering calls at GP practices are to receive extra training so that people who could be seen by physiotherapists or mental health specialists are able to bypass their GP. Described by NHS England as ‘a significant new step’, up to half a million...

Physiotherapist Trudi McDowall joins colleagues who completed a pioneering practice education course

by Ian McMillan | May 9, 2023 | On The Move

NULLPhysiotherapist Trudi McDowall, who works for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has completed the University of Winchester’s first PG Certificate in Practice Education course. Joining 11 colleagues from her cohort at an event held at the university...

End the ‘gender bias’ blighting progress in the sports and exercise medicine field, say nine physios

by Ian McMillan | May 9, 2023 | Sports physiotherapy

Leading figures in sports and exercise medicine should strive to ‘break the cycle of gender bias’ in their field by acting as role models. That is the message contained in an editorial published today in the open access journal BMJ Open Sport &...

Kevin Hunt put the lessons he’s learned in 25 years as a physiotherapist into a unique book on pain

by Ian McMillan | May 5, 2023 | Pain

Physiotherapist Kevin Hunt’s first book – tackling the topic of how to respond to persistent pain – is published next week (12 May). In an exclusive and fascinating PhysioUpdate article, Kevin answers a series of questions posed by editor Ian A...