I am currently involved in a review of out patient physiotherapy services
for our primary care trust. I wonder if anyone has any words of wisdom from
their own departments experience as to initiatives that have worked well
for them and equally important those that haven't (you could save me re-
inventing a square wheel!!). The sort of things I am thinking of are triage
systems, self referral schemes, and things that have been tried to balance
supply and demand. We have some independant physiotherapy providers that do
some of the GP work in the Trust and I would be interested to see if anyone
has developed a way to provide an equitable service in their areas by
successful working between the independant sector and the NHS.
Thanks
Trish Bailey
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