“Putting our backs into it…”
With an estimated 540 million people in the world suffering with low back pain at any one time, It remains one of the leading causes of years lived with disability, and the biggest single cause of disability on the planet today.
It will therefore come as no surprise that it is also the largest cause of work absences, accounting for more than 12 million days lost every year in the UK, alone. Back pain presents a major challenge to health systems and employers alike, and costs the NHS and the UK economy billions of pounds every year.…
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IPPTA is the subgroup of World Physiotherapy that represents the interests of private practitioners in members’ countries. In Helsinki, Finland, the focus for the business meeting was to concentrate one of the main IPPTA strategic goals, which is “to help private physiotherapy organisations help their members to determine and compete on quality and evidenced based value.”… 
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The King’s Fund has worked with AHPs from across the UK to consider their contribution to tackling health inequalities. A framework based on the findings, to which the 
