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Continuing our mini-series of podcasts looking at other professional roles in General Practice, Ben talks to Dr Neil Langridge who is a Consultant Physiotherapist in a GP practice. He tells Ben about his work and the positive impact that it has had on patients and the GP workload.

Show Notes

Neil explains how he came to be a physiotherapist in General Practice (38secs)

The development of physiotherapists in General Practice (1mins 05secs)

Neil is a “First Contact” practitioner (1mins 40secs)

How does a consultant physiotherapist in a General Practice operate? (1mins 53secs)

Onward referrals to other professionals are very low (3mins 04secs)

A range of models are available (3secs 29secs)

The impact that a consultant physiotherapist can have (4mins 19secs)

How many patients does Neil see? (5mins 31secs)

What has been the impact on the workload for GPs? (6mins 16secs)

Where do you see the benefits? (7mins 10 secs)

It is different than self-referral to physiotherapy (7mins 30secs)

How independent is the physiotherapist? (8mins 23secs)

Plans for the future of Neil’s role in the local Primary Care Centre (9mins 18secs)

Additional funding from Health Education England to allow evaluation of the competencies (10mins 14secs)

How will physiotherapy work in General Practice in the future? (10mins 42secs)

How the role is funded now and in the future (11mins 53secs)

Maximising the benefits of a finite resource (12mins 27secs)

Neil achieves a better understanding of the GP role (13mins 26secs)

The patients are good at triaging themselves (14mins 29secs)

Demand is high but patients will wait (15mins 12secs)

Ensuring a future supply of physiotherapists (15mins 38secs)

Will physiotherapists move to work in a GP practice? (16mins 29secs)

Advice to practices who might be interested in working with a physiotherapy (17mins 13secs)

Neil suggests interested parties should contact the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Their website is available here. Neil can be contacted at neil.langridge@southernhealth.nhs.uk