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• Workforce strategy a further boost for patients in Northern Ireland, says CSP

  A key document’s focus on the role AHPs can play in transforming services in Northern Ireland has been welcomed by the CSP.

  Press release — 14 May 2018 - 12:15pm

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• Views and opinions

  First contact physios get green light in Scotland

  A new role for physios in GP surgeries will open up opportunities UK-wide says Kenryck Lloyd-Jones.

• Advice line

  Advice line: CSP's digital operation for your membership

  Nina Paterson on the CSP’s digital operation and how it enhances your membership.

• Cover story

  Drug Dependency: a hidden addiction

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  Sometimes patients don’t realise they have become dependent on drugs prescribed in primary care.

  

• Views and opinions

  Time to tackle a major killer

  A national taskforce has been set up to reduce lung disease mortality, writes Alison Cook.

• Features

  Clinical update: Acetabular hip dysplasia: the physio’s role

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  Physiotherapists are ideally placed to reduce the long wait – often years – for a diagnosisof acetabular hip dysplasia.

  

• Features

  NIHR Signal: Exercise therapy may still improve balance when started a long time after a stroke

  In the first of our regular series from the National Institute for Health Research, we look at stroke.

  

• Features

  Love activity, Hate exercise?: the power of the conversation

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  As part of our Love activity, Hate exercise?

  

• Comment

  Editors comment: prescription pitfalls

  We have some strong clinical issues for you in this issue of Frontline.

• First contact practitioner funding announced in Northern Ireland

  A significant investment in first contact practitioner roles in Northern Ireland is a ‘huge boost’ for patients and the NHS as a whole, says the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

  Press release — 9 May 2018 - 10:45am

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