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The CSP has welcomed the extra £10 billion for the NHS in England by 2020 announced by the chancellor George Osborne in the spending review yesterday.

Additional NHS funding is welcome, but support is needed to expand services such as falls prevention and physiotherapy in GP surgeries.

Members are being urged to support campaigns to end pregnancy and maternity discrimination ahead of the publication of recommendations for action to the government and employers.

CSP stewards have successfully campaigned to change maternity leave rights for members at their trust, after being inspired by the society’s landmark case in Northern Ireland in August.

Physiotherapists working in neurorehabilitation can apply for the third annual Franz Gerstenbrand prize, awarded by the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation.

Debbie Simpson travelled to the Middle East to provide physio cover for a gruelling six-day ultramarathon.

Paediatric physiotherapy educator Sarah Westwater-Wood has been awarded a prestigious Higher Education England Senior Fellowship.

Using robotics as a rehabilitation tool is ‘helping to make physiotherapy more attractive to children’, Andreas Meyer-Heim told the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists’ (APCP) annual conference, held in Newcastle on 13 November.

The future for children and young people with cerebral palsy is in all of our hands.

The background to a controversial decision earlier this year to drop professional insurance cover for physios working in top tier football clubs emerged at a conference last week.