making the most of social media to learn, share and influence
As we approach the official launch to the public of The CSP’s Love Activity, Hate Exercise? campaign on Friday 6th July, this tweetchat provides the opportunity for physiotherapists to share ideas on how to help patients, particularly those with longer term conditions age 40+, to get more active. We’ll be chatting on Monday 25th June […]
We had planned this #physiotalk on sleep a while ago, but the importance of sleep was re-emphasised to me this weekend. My son was travelling home and needing picked up from the airport – but a flight delay meant that he eventually arrived home at 3am. That meant that all of us were sleep deprived […]
Looking for a new job once you have graduated can be a daunting task. We are joining with Chris Smith @Alliedhealthwfs who suggested this chat and is our guest host, to help you with tips and advice for getting you the job you have trained so hard for. The chat will be on Monday 14th […]
Physiotalk was ‘born’ out of a Twitter conversation in 2013 and our very first chat was held in December 2013. Fast forward to April 2018 and we are just about to hold our 100th #physiotalk chat – it will be on Monday 23rd April at 8.30pm BST (we are still piloting a slight change of […]
The tweetchat on Monday 9th April will be focussed on how to successfully submit and abstract – in time for #Physio18 but of course relevant to any other conference as well! It will be at 8.30pm – we are testing a new time for chats! Physiotherapy UK 2018 is the flagship scientific conference hosted by […]
You’re stressed. Too much work. The CSP wants to communicate with you. Tell us how? This chat on Monday 26th March is hosted by the CSP South West Regional network @cspsouthwest but they would like to invite anyone to join in – all views welcomed as the issues will be similar wherever you work! The Chartered […]
Our guest hosts for the tweetchat at 8pm GMT on Monday 5th March are Esther Clift, Jo Jennings and Nick Southorn who are going to lead a discussion on advanced clinical practice roles. Workforce resilience is key for supporting the new models of care within the NHS and delivering the 5 year forward view. STPs […]
With apologies for those Physiotalk followers outside of the UK, our tweetchat on Monday 19th February at 8pm GMT will be focused on elections for the new Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) council. New CSP Council Following the governance review and subsequent decision at the CSP AGM the new council will be smaller, with 12 […]
Janet and Naomi have been running physiotalk for 4 years now. That’s a tweetchat every fortnight – open access, free continuing professional development (CPD) for physiotherapists, allied health professionals (AHPs) and many others. Run on a shoe string (about £100 a year) we do this as volunteers; and with full time jobs and busy family […]
The very first Workforce planning strategy and consultation is being held by Health Education England from December to March 2018. (Have you had your say on the consultation?). Workforce planning isn’t anything new though and certainly not restricted to the NHS in England! You can find information around NHS workforce planning in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and […]
This tweetchat on Monday 11th December at 8pm GMT has been organised by the Devon and Cornwall subcommittee of South West ACPIN @ACPIN_SW Our two 2nd year Physiotherapy student ACPIN members have suggested the topic of falls and balance within the neurological population following a recent Neuro module at Plymouth University. One neurological condition that […]
On Monday 23rd October at 8pm, UK time we’re delighted to be teaming up with Jack Marsh and Jack Chew from the TPM team for a tweetchat on clinical excellence. Defining and achieving clinical excellence The recent Physio Matters Podcast with Connect Health on Clinical Excellence was a fantastic insight into the inner workings of […]
This years Scottish Physiotherapy Student Conference (#SPSC2017) is being held at Queen Margaret University on 28 October 2017. It’s a conference organised by students for students and is now in its fourth year. The theme of this years conference is Rehabilitation & Technology. While staying true to our roots as physiotherapists, it is imperative that […]
Older People’s Day presents a great opportunity to promote the role of physio in preventing falls and encourage investment in physio-led falls services. As part of the activities taking part on and close to Older Peoples Day we are holding a chat co-hosted by @thecsp and @iptopwcpt The first thing to note is that this […]
As often happens (well to me anyway) I was drawn into a tweetchat this week having had no intention of taking part. It was the #OTalk chat on ‘Engaging Occupational Therapists in and with research’. It was a fast and thought provoking chat based on work the RCOT are doing in reviewing research and development activity. […]
As we are in the lead up to World Physical Therapy day it seemed an appropriate time to consider the wider question of how we promote ourselves as physiotherapists and equally how we promote our profession in general. We are going to be chatting about this on Monday 4th September at 8pm BST World Physical Therapy […]
Following on from our last chat on career planning we are going to look more in depth in our next chat on Monday 21st August at 8pm BST around physiotherapy careers in non clinical roles. Varied roles and careers as the physiotherapists A comment made in the last Physiotalk tweetchat was ‘Do PTs feel of less […]
Proposals for new apprenticeships in healthcare have generated significant discussion on twitter over the past few weeks, particularly related to the consultation in December on proposals to develop an apprenticeship standard for pre-registration physiotherapy. For our first physiotalk on 2017 on Monday 9 January at 8pm UK time we’ll be discussing the opportunities and challenges associated […]
